WWI Soldiers at 17th Training Camp at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa

ID: 166 ~ Source: Evans-Tibbs Collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Insititution, gift of the Estate of Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr. ~ Date: 1914-1918

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WWI Soldiers at 17th Training Camp at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa

Lawyers' Assn, 17th training camp, Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. Handwritten in corner: Property of George H. Murray - Co #5

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Wartime

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English

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This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology

Fort Des Moines: Chronology

By Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center

1901 Construction begins on the 400-acre base Fort Des Moines on Des Moines’ South Side.1903-1904 Two companies of the all-black U.S. Army 25th Infantry surprise Des Moines’ local citizens by arriving instead of white cavalry. The 25th had been…