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Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

AEF Railway Engineers WWI photo-scrapbook, 1917-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-022
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: 1917 - 1919