An American and Nothing Else: The Great War and the Battle for National Belonging

Item

Photograph: Soldiers drinking and playing cards on barracks porch.

Title

Photograph: Soldiers drinking and playing cards on barracks porch.

Description

Unknown photographer; Soldiers drinking and playing cards on a barracks porch. Early 20th century photograph, In pencil, verso, "Fort Leavenworth 10th cav." The idea of this posed subject originates in the "Darktown," humorous lithograph series of Currier & Ives. A set with 608.

Creator

Unknown Photographer

Contributor

Beinecke Library

Date

1912

Format

Photograph

Identifier

JWJ MSS 54_19_890

Source

Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection

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