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First Colored Battalion, District of Columbia, National Guard; On Pensylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.; Parading the National Guard before going to France

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library
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Photographs Halftone Photomechanical Prints
Created Date:
1919
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Kelly Miller's history of the world war for human rights: being an intensely human and brilliant account of the world war and why and for what purpose America and the allies are fighting and the important part taken by the Negro, including the horrors and wonders of modern warfare, the new and strange devices, etc. ... by Kelly Miller ... illustrated with 128 genuine pictures from recent official photographs, also outline map drawings

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. American
  2. Military Personnel
  3. Militias
  4. Parades & Processions
  5. Washington (D.C.)
  6. World War, 1914 1918

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