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What Relaxation Looked Like for Soldiers, 1918

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The caption to this photograph read that these soldiers “have other advantages of a clubhouse and social centre”, which on the face of its seems like an outrageous statement, but when you compare this to whatever else was available to these soldiers, then this seems to be not far from the truth.  After all, these soldiers were warm, dry, and nobody was shooting at them.  

Source:  War of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings  compiled from the Mid-week pictorial; New York Times, 1919. (The original of this is available and not terribly uncommon; it is a big book–500+pp–and about 16 inches tall, and makes for a great breeze-through.)

  • An online version is found here: https://archive.org/details/warofnationsport00unse

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