Curved stereoview photo shows Black troops in line for mess. they are walking up wooden steps to a wooden building. The caption says “19106–Come On Boys! Every Man is On the Job at Mess Time. Colored Troops” The left margin...
Curved stereoview photo shows Black troops in formation near a barracks. Caption reads “19104–Descendants of Slaves Fighting for Freedom from the Prussian Yoke.” The left margin reads “Keystone View Company Manufacturers, Publishers, Made in USA, Copyrighted, Underwood and Underwood” The...
Curved stereoview photo shows Black troops aligned for inspection in France. The caption reads: “18663–Soldiers of the Allies Knew Neither Color Nor Creed in The Big Fight for Victory–Review of Troops at Marseilles.” The left margin reads “Keystone View Company...
Curved stereoview photo shows a line of Black soldiers going to Mess. The buildings look like those at Camp Upton, NY. The caption says “19099– Colored Boys Awaiting Dinner Call–Engineers of the Signal Corps Lining Up for Mess, National Army.”...
Curved stereoview photo shows a large ship with huge group of Black soldiers sitting and standing as they depart for France. The caption reads “14339 — Brave colored officers and men off for France, eager for their share of the...
Boston Daily Advertiser Newspaper, June 21, 1864 with article on “Military Affairs,” which describes the advance of General Hunter’s column up the valley of the Shenandoah. This lengthy article ends by describing the “Efficiency of negro troops.” “Their losses were...
The curved stereoview photo shows a row of Black Cavalrymen grooming horses. The caption reads: “Black Cavalrymen grooming horses, Camp Tampa, Fla. Copyright 1898 by R. Y” and then an illegible word. The left margin says “American Stereoscopic Company Manufacturers...
The image shows a Black American soldier in uniform with his Kepi Hat on a bench. The kepi cap has an affixed 10th Calvary emblem. I believe the size of photo mount and the soldier’s uniform uniform dates this from...
Panoramic Photograph of Military Training of Black officers at Fort Des Moines, in Iowa, 1917. The photograph has cursive writing in white across the top of the image saying: “Reserve Training,” “Captains Camp Ft. Des Moines, IA,” “Oct. 16th, 1917,”...
Black troops included in a parade in Waterloo Iowa
From the ca 1890 Taylor and Huntington reissue from the Anthony negatives. A large group of Black cavalrymen sit on the ground and on horseback at the left of the image. Among them are several White military as well. The...
Photo shows Black soldiers at drill practice. Caption under photo reads: “Colored Infantry, Camp Dodge, Iowa” Back has message to “Sis” and is addressed to “Miss Esther Bains, Rock Island, Illinois” Cancel mark is “Des Moines, Iowa, Dodge Branch” Left...
Photograph shows a large group portrait of Black American officers from the 5th Provisional Company seated and standing in front of a building at the Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1917. This...
Photo postcard shows the toppled statue of Frederick III with several White men and one Black American soldier at the left. Friedrich III (1831 – 1888) was the German emperor and king of Prussia for 99 days. The sculpture, commissioned...
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