Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) Group of four panoramic photographs of black soldiers. 39, 42 and 48 inches; sepia toned; some crackling to the surfaces, but for the most part very good condition. Vp, 1919

Additional Details

Includes: "Machine Gun Company, 366th Infantry. A.E.F. 1918-1919 Engaged at Vosges, Meuses-Argonne, Marbaches and Metz Sectors; Officers 366th Infantry, 183rd Brigade at Camp Dodge; Battery C-350th Field Artillery. A.E. F. 1918-1919 and another unidentified group of WW I African-American troopers. The 366th was a uniquely African-American outfit with its own officers serving in both WW I and WW II.