Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ARTHUR MOLE (1889-1983) & JOHN THOMAS (active 1918-1919)
A uniform suite of 7 photographs, each artfully composed of thousands of American military officers, enlisted soldiers, and nurses arranged in patriotic formations.
Silver prints, each image measuring approximately 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), and the reverse, the uniform mounts 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), each with Mole & Thomas' credit, title, and date, in the negative, and three with printed Mole & Thomas labels including their copyright, credit, titles, and further descriptive information about the images, on mount verso. 1917-19

Additional Details

Machine Gun Insignia, Machine Gun Training Center, 22,500 Officers and Men, 600 Machine Guns, Camp Hancock, Augusta, GA, Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards Commanding, Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson, Directing The Human U.S. Shield, 30,000 Officers and Men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., Brig. Gen. Howard L. Laubach Commanding The Human American Eagle, 12,500 Officers, Nurses and Men, Camp Gordon, Atlanta, GA, Maj. Gen. George H. Cameron, Commanding The Living Uncle Sam, 19,000 Officers and Men, Camp Lee, VA, Major General, Omar Bundy, Com'd'g. Live Emblem of the United States Marines, 100 Officers and 9,000 Enlisted Men, Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S.C., Brigadier General J.H. Pendleton, Commanding The Human Liberty Bell, 25,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dix, New Jersey, General Hugh L. Scott, Com'd'r. The Living Service Flag, 10,000 Officers and Men, Camp Funston, Kansas, Maj. Gen. Leonards Wood, Com.