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J.A.G.: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 12:10pm.
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Washington, D.C., 1917. "Junior American Guard drilling." The tall boy is Randall Elliott. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Close up of the street light
Submitted by Brendan on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 11:37pm.
Close up of the street light with street name so we can locate? Does that say Kalorama?
[I think it does. - Dave]
Integrated group in 1917 DC?
Submitted by jag45 on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 1:35pm.
Rear rank, far right.
[If you mean far left, that's Lincoln Shah, who was Chinese. - Dave]
Growing Boys
Submitted by T.U.M. on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 9:45am.
Kind of hard to make a neat military parade when all your men are growing at different rates.
Stiff Spine
Submitted by stanton_square on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 7:12pm.
Randall Elliott also organized and served as president of the rifle club at Western High in 1916.
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