Company P 506th Engineer Service Battalion Camp Lee 1149 G: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photographic postcard of Company P 506th Engineers Service Battalion at Camp Lee. The photograph features two rows of men in work pants and a jacket or overalls and long sleeve shirts wearing a variety of hats. All of the men stand in a grassy field facing the camera. The back of the photographic postcard is unused and has [POST CARD] printed in black at the top and blank spaces for [CORRESPONDENCE HERE] and [NAME AND ADDRESS HERE]. In the upper right corner there is a [AZO] stamp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1917-1918
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Printed by: Eastman Kodak Company, founded 1889
• Subject of: 506th Engineer Service Battalion, American, 1917 - 1919
• Subject of: United States Army, American, founded 1775
• Subject of: Fort Lee, American, founded 1917
• Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
• Type: stereoscopes
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on paper, ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 7/16 × 5 3/8 in. (8.7 × 13.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Camp Lee, Prince George County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Men
• Topic: Military
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: World War I
• Object number: 2013.46.29.83
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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