AEF Railway Engineers WWI photo-scrapbook, 1917-1919

Collection

Identifier: 2013-022

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The album documents barracks life, rifle range acitivity, the Army Service School, Leavenworth prison, engineer training (road march, bivouac, pontoon bridges, walls, base camps, and locomotives (including some from the Paris-Orleans railway), rolling stock (box cars, flat cars, and tank car gondolas), steam shovels, and trucks (5 ton and ambulances). Post-war images include vehicles, buildings, construction (railroad bridge, river lock, river boat crane, barges, paved roads, etc.).

Dates

Creation: 1917 - 1919

Creator

Harrison, Ben, 1833-1901 (Photographer, Person)

Language

These materials are in English.

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished manuscripts are under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.

Biographical / Historical

World War I photograph album compiled by an unknown engineer from the 18th Engineer Regiment (Railway), with basic training at Fort Ben Harrison [Indiana], from an apparent and subsequent 1917 assignment in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to his follow-on posting in France, including Bassens. The album concludes with images of post-war construction projects such as Lock 39 on the Ohio River.