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The United States Shield

Artist Arthur S. Mole (American, 1889-1983)

Artist John D. Thomas (American, died 1947)

Date1918

DimensionsImage: 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (340 x 267 mm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 x 10 5/8 in. (354 x 270 mm)

MediumGelatin-silver photograph

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineLouise and Stanley Levison Fund

Object number

2002.3

Not on View

DescriptionGelatin silver print; written in white on photograph, lower left: The Human U.S. Shield | 30,000 Officers and Men | Camp Custar, Battle Creek, Mich. | Brig. Gen. Howard L. Laubach Commanding.; written in white lower right: © 1918, Mole & Thomas | 915 Medimax Bldg. | Chicago, Ill. Gelatin silver print; written in white on photograph, lower left: The Human U.S. Shield | 30,000 Officers and Men | Camp Custar, Battle Creek, Mich. | Brig. Gen. Howard L. Laubach Commanding.; written in white lower right: © 1918, Mole & Thomas | 915 Medimax Bldg. | Chicago, Ill.

Published Referencescf. David L. Fisk, "Arthur S. Mole," History of Photography Monograph Series no. 3 (Tempe: Arizona State University, 1983). cf. "'I didn't raise my boy to be an eyebrow,' Parting Shots," Life September 24, 1971, p. 82. cf. Maud Lavin, "Arthur Mole, Living Portraiture," Art Express no. 2 (September-October 1981). cf. "Talk of the Town," The New Yorker, March 15, 1982, p. 33.