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12-14-2007, 22:45
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| Junior Officer   |  this is AWESOME this is great! 18,000 Officers and Soldiers at CAMP Dodge Iowa, Date unknown.. I think this is great
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12-14-2007, 23:44
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| Monkey Mouse   | Re: this is AWESOME That is awesome. I saw it somewhere and think it was done sometime in the early 40's to early 50's.
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12-15-2007, 09:37
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| Junior Officer | Re: this is AWESOME Best I can tell......Pre WWII by the uniforms... Hard to be sure
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12-15-2007, 10:48
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| Racy Ol' Lady   | Re: this is AWESOME It was done during WWI, actually. Some 28,000 soldiers were used. I'll see if I can find it, Phil. I had it in email -- seems to me it was Connie (Conlor) who sent it. If you enlarge the picture, you will see their uniforms are WWI vintage.
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12-15-2007, 10:54
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| Racy Ol' Lady | Re: this is AWESOME Here ya go: An Awesome Patriotic picture During the WW I years, Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas made some incredible human pictures by using 18K (thousands) sailors or soldiers in uniform to create images.  Click to Enlarge Photo by Arthur S. Mole & John D. Thomas (1918) Source of scanned image unknown Comments: True. This image matches one in the U.S. National Archives credited to photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas, captioned as follows: "18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Commanding. Colonel Rush S. Wells, Directing." The picture was taken in July 1918. "Human Statue of Liberty" was one of a series of group photographs taken by Mole and Thomas during and immediately after World War I at U.S. military training camps. Each took up to a week to compose and shoot using an 11" x 14" view camera perched atop an 80-foot tower. According to photography historian Louis Kaplan, these so-called "living sculptures" served as "rallying points to support American involvement in the war and to ward off isolationist tendencies." Human Statue of Liberty (Photo) - Netlore Archive Marvelous, isn't it! I'm so glad you put this here, Phil! You can enlarge it from this too, I think -- it not, you can go through the URL and enlarge from there.
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12-15-2007, 10:56
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| Junior Officer | Re: this is AWESOME thanx for the info......I was just sent the pic with no more information. Thanx again
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12-15-2007, 11:01
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| Racy Ol' Lady | Re: this is AWESOME I see I missed it in your original post -- 18,000, not 28,000. That's really quite a large number of men! It must have been an unforgettable experience, being in that picture.
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