Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0177Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of large group of soldiers standing in a column four wide, a buidling with French, American and other Allied country's flags is in the background. Above the image "W283 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V19266 Some of Our Two Million Fighters Ready for Home, Brest, France." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood , Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V19266
SOME OF OUR TWO MILLION FIGHTERS READY FOR HOME, BREST
These hundreds of men in their slickers and web beits have passed through the rigorous routine of the embarkation camp which is located two or three miles beyond that high wall in the distance and are now trampling for the last time down the principal steets in Brest, past the drug store and the little retail shops to the piers where they will board the ferry boats that carry the troops form the land to the transports at anchor in the harbor.
By their flag you recognize them as part of a regiment of field artillery. Their guns and all excess equipment have been turned in at the army bases, leaving them with light packs - and light hearts.
For months the natives of the city hung out their flags each day and assembled in groups along the side walk to bid a last farewell to the thousands of troops that passed on the piers. As many as 40,000 troops can be checked out of the camp in a single day, an operation that would be impossible if it were not for the splended system and facilities which the camp has for bathing, feeding, clothing and checking up the records of the the men.
Copyright by The Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection