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This is a HUGE photo album from a soldier who served overseas from Jun 8, 1918-July 8, 1918
This album is 4" thick. It's chalked full of documented photographs even including an index of nicknames of soldiers shown in photographs and what their real names were.
This album is named to Sergeant Orson E. Smith Service ID 2423937 of the Quartermaster Corps.
This is one of the largest, most complete and well documented WWI photo albums I've come across.
The First page contains a HUGE map to which he colored in different parts corresponding to battle fronts with dates and also where he was stationed or where he covered and traveled through.
Contains:
- 1 HUGE map
- 174 photographs which all have information handwritten below them
- 394 postcards, various tourist maps and tourist booklets/ephemera
- promotion certificate to Seegeant
- promotion certificate to Sergeant 1st Class
- facsimile copy of letter from General Pershing
- Various ticket stubs
- Troop Billet for the U.S.S. Kentuckian
- letter proving he served with the AEF
- Documents from "Armed American Permission"
- Leave paperwork
This beast of a book weighs a little over 8 pounds!