A Guide to the World War I Oversize Photographs, 1918-1919
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 11547
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
World War I Oversize Photographs, Accession #11547, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased from Jim Presgraves on 1999 August 26.
Scope and Content Information
The collection consists of two oversized panoramic photographs of World War soldiers who trained in Virginia and various aeronautical and medical units.
Photograph by Shulman of Camp Hancock (Augusta, Ga.), an ordnance training camp, 1918. An unidentified soldier has numbered objects on the photograph and explained them on the verso.
Photograph by Stouts & Simpson of the personnel of Base Hospital Unit No. 165, Waco, Texas, once in the possession of Walter Cook, a soldier in the photograph.
Contents List
Handwriting on back identifies various parts of camp such as the latrines, bath houses, classrooms, mess houses, and his own tent.
Walter Cook (1896-1972) identified on photograph as fourth person on first row.