Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(PRESIDENTS--1918.) Mole & Thomas; photographers. Sincerely Yours, Woodrow Wilson: 21,000 Officers and Men, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe Ohio. Silver print photograph, 11 3/4 x 10 inches to sight; faint creases in image area. Not examined outside of frame. (TFC) Chicago, 1918

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One of the patriotic "living photographs" composed by Arthur Samuel Mole and John D. Thomas during World War One. Here, thousands of soldiers were arranged in perspective from an eighty-foot viewing tower to form a portrait of President Wilson.