Look What I Found
Rebecca Amerson
Mole & Thomas, Photographers, Chicago, WWI era
I received an amazing photograph in an email recently. It was a human Statue of Liberty made up of 18,000 soldiers taken at Fort Dodge in 1918 by Mole & Thomas. The first thing I did was go to SNOPES and check it out. Please take the time to read this entry for a truly interesting art form used to sell war bonds during World War I! Of course, the next thing I did was to look in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division for other photographs by Mole & Thomas. There they were – including three taken at military bases in Georgia! Follow the linked images in order to be able to see more details.
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Machine Gun Insignia; Machine Gun Training Center;
22500 officers and men, 600 machine guns;
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.; Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards,
commanding; Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson, directing. 1918.