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Unknown AEF Railway Engineers Photo Scrapbook from World War One
Homemade 1917 Scrapbook Very Good
Important photographic record of the 18th Engineer Regiment (Railway), one of the very first US units to deploy to France in World War I. 229 military photos, 100 post-war photos (many of large construction projects). Most photos have captions. The scrapbook owner is unknown. Lots of soldier photos including some of black doughboys. Many identified. Documents basic training in early 1917 at Fort Ben Harrison Indiana, engineer training at Fort Leavenworth Kansas, construction at Bassens (the port of Bordeaux) in France, and post-war consruction of Lock 39 on the Ohio River. Incredibly well chosen subjects including photos of the barracks life, rifle range, the Army Service School (now Command and General Staff College), Leavenworth prision, engineer training (road march, bivouac, pontoon bridge, trenches, machine gun emplacement, wireless station, gabions, barbed wire, etc.), dock/railroad construction in France (track, docks, warehouses, bridges, walls, base camps, locomotives including some from the Paris-Orleans Railway, rolling stock (box cars, flat cars, tank car, gondolas), steam shovels, trucks (5 ton, ambulance), post war home photos with vehicles including tractors, post war construction photos (railroad bridges, river lock, river boat crane, barges, paved roads, etc. Photos are all in nice shape. The scrapbook is intact, but has some wear to the page edges and cover.
Price:
950.00 USD
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