COLLECTION NAME:
Underwood & Underwood World War I press photographs
Record
Identifier:
C0502_B001_F018.jpg
Title:
Bayonet practice on dummy of Kaiser Wilhelm at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Date:
1917-10-30
Description:
Attached: "S/229864 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. JABBING THE KAISER -- GREATEST OF OUT DOOR SPORTS AT NATIONAL ARMY CAMPS. The favorite out door sport of the boys who are learning to be soldiers at the National Kaiser Bill. Of course the fact that the only Kaiser they can jab is a dummy takes some of the joy out of the pasttime, but at that the soldier in the photo is enjoying himself. This dummy Kaiser was set up for bayonet practice at Camp Dix. His heart is marked out plainly so that the boys who go through this training will know just where to plunge their bayonets when they meet the Kaiser's men, they hope to meet him too, somewhere along the Western front. This jabbing the Kaiser is good fun but at the same time it is mighty good practice in the science of manipulating the bayonet which is a very important item in the education of every good fighting men. CENSORED AND PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. 10/30/17."
Subject:
World War, 1914 - 1918
Subject:
Bayonets
Geographic Area:
United States
Decade:
1910s
Type:
Still Image
Genre/Form:
war photography
Genre/Form:
black-and-white photographs
Genre/Form:
group portraits
Format:
Photograph; black and white
Extent:
8 x 10 in.
Digital Publisher:
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center.
Collection:
Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs
Physical Location:
Box 1, Folder 18
Rights Statement:
Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.
General Note:
The description for these photographs is transcribed from paper descriptions that are attached to the photographs with adhesive. These paper descriptions are brittle and acidic. For presentation and accessibility purposes, the descriptions have been cropped out of the image.
