WWI African American Soldiers Carnegie Library Group Photo

$600.00

Remarkable. Uniformed soldiers (and the women to welcome them home after Armistice) spill across the yard of a Carnegie Library. Men are sitting in the windows - a few even have climbed the building to be better seen! Captioned Dec 18, 1918 on reverse and Compton bottom right. ___ Mount measures 8 x 10". Board with creases and stains, the...

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Remarkable.

Uniformed soldiers (and the women to welcome them home after Armistice) spill across the yard of a Carnegie Library.

Men are sitting in the windows - a few even have climbed the building to be better seen!

Captioned Dec 18, 1918 on reverse and Compton bottom right.

___

Mount measures 8 x 10".

Board with creases and stains, the staining to the photograph shows largely in the field and sky.

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