Soldiers use train car as makeshift office

Photograph

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Oklahoma National Guard Museum

Name/Title

Soldiers use train car as makeshift office

Entry/Object ID

1979.081.349

Description

Negative of a makeshift office space made from a box car used by James Valentine (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Lawrence Cady (Boston, Massachusetts), and Robert Bickerstoff (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Negative

Subject Place

City

Nancy

Department

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Region

Grand Est, Western Europe

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Context

45th Division News Vol V No. 19 "There may not be chintz curtains on the windows because there aren't any windows, but this Kraut box car has been converted into a warm, dry home for three GIs in a regimental service company. (Left to right) James Valentine (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Lawrence Cady (Boston, Massachusetts), and Robert Bickerstoff (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

George F. Tapscott

Role

Photographer

Date made

Dec 15, 1944

Time Period

20th Century, World War Two

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Negative, Sheet Film

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Soldiers, Desks, Box cars, Lamps