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U.S. Army mechanics learn auto servicing at Camp Holabird, Md. – Historic Reproduction

U.S. Army mechanics learn auto servicing at Camp Holabird, Md., c1940. — historic photograph
U.S. Army mechanics learn auto servicing at Camp Holabird, Md., c1940.. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: U.S. Army mechanics learn auto servicing at Camp Holabird, Md., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Camp Holabird, near Baltimore in Maryland, was the Army's Quartermaster Corps depot and training ground, and this picture shows enlisted men being taught to service motor vehicles there around 1940, just before the United States entered the Second World War. The photograph is a Jam Handy Picture Service production, a Detroit firm that made training films and stills for the military and industry, so it was likely staged to show recruits the standard procedures used on the Army's growing fleet of trucks and cars. Its subject connects to a larger story: the mechanization of the Army in the late 1930s and the need to train large numbers of men quickly to keep vehicles running.

Created / publishedc1940.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940.
NotesJ31306 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Jam Handy Picture Service. No. 91066.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Transportation. Vehicle maintenance & repair--1940. Military education--1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168785

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