(MILITARY WORLD WAR ONE) Panorama photo of the 426th Reserv

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(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) Panorama photo of the 426th Reserve Labor Battalion. Photograph, 8 x 38 1/2 inches, captioned with credit of post photographer J.R. Peden, with additional photographer's inked stamp on verso; worn with two complete vertical tears but stabilized by original linen backing. Camp Sevier, SC, 18 January 1919

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Camp Sevier near Greenville, SC was created in 1917 to train National Guard troops for deployment to the European front in the first World War. This unit was composed, as typical, of Black enlisted men with white officers including commander James S. Driver in the foreground. Two motorcycles with sidecars can be seen in foreground, and what appears to be a boxing ring is set up just behind the troops. According to the Greenville News of 28 January 1919, the company started demobilization within ten days of this photograph. Provenance: Carol Yvonne Perdue Black Memorabilia Collection.