Posted on 04/22/2009 2:59:26 PM PDT by iowamark
""On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge." [This area was west of Baker St. and is currently the area around building S34 and to the west.] "According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted-they were dressed in woolen uniforms-as the temperature neared 105 degrees Farenheit. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds but was never used." (Grover 1987)""
""Many examples of Mole's patriotic photographs in true perspective still exist. Pay close attention to the way spatial depth and perspective is defied. As in the Statue of Liberty there are twice as many men in the flame of the torch as in the rest of the design.""
More proof of UFO’s?
These are amazing, I can’t even begin to imagine how much planning and effort it must have taken to pull these off, especially the one with 18,000 men. And when each one fainted, they had to wait to get him out of there, etc... Thanks for posting!
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This is great!!! Thanks for the ping!
My pleasure!
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Cool pics, but you just gotta know those had to be long, long, long days setting up for the shoot.
The USMC one though, that’s probably all recruits, and their life is supposed to suck, so no real impact there.
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