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WWI Doughboy Soldier Campaign Hat Winter Barracks Photo 1918 Montana Peak:
$11.99
A sepia-toned silver gelatin print captures a young American soldier standing at ease before a rough-hewn wooden plank wall, the vertical boards suggesting a temporary barracks or training-camp structure of the World War I era. He wears the distinctive wide-brimmed campaign hat, creased into the four-dent "Montana Peak" shape, paired with a high-collared tunic featuring the four patch pockets characteristic of the United States Army uniform issued to doughboys. Snow banks the ground at his feet, and the flat, diffuse light of an overcast winter day softens the scene, indicating the photograph was made during the cold months of his training or garrison duty. His posture—hands relaxed, gaze directed slightly off-axis from the lens—belongs to the vernacular portraiture tradition of soldiers documenting their service, a genre that proliferated at camps such as those in the northern states where recruits drilled before deployment to the Western Front.The verso carries a penciled inscription of "1-20-18," dating the image to January 20, 1918, a date that anchors it firmly in the final year of the Great War, when American forces were mobilizing in earnest. The numeral "2.00" written in pencil at the lower right likely denotes a price or processing fee, a reminder of the commercial exchange that produced such keepsakes for families on the home front. The print exhibits the soft grain and tonal range typical of contact prints from the period, with slight fading and edge wear consistent with a century of handling. The photograph stands as a compact artifact of military material culture, its uniform details, camp architecture, and wintry atmosphere offering a precise window into the lived experience of an American soldier on the eve of overseas deployment.
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