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Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07593 Author/Creator: Place Written: [Chicago] Type: Photograph Date: 1918 ca. Pagination: 2 items 40.8 x 51 cm Order a Copy

Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.

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