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Horse marines in action – Historic Print

Horse marines in action, 1917 — historic photograph
Horse marines in action, 1917. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Horse marines in action comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Central News Photo Service, a commercial agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, issued this 1917 print as number 4292, and its title promises Marines at work on horseback rather than in parade formation. Horses and mules still hauled guns, supplies and messages for armies on both sides of the First World War, even as motor trucks were beginning to take over much of that work. The Marine Corps was then expanding quickly for the war, and a picture like this shows how the service mixed older field methods with the newer demands of modern combat.

Created / published1917
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesCentral News Photo Service. No. 4292.
SubjectsUnited States.--Marine Corps--People--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Military personnel--American. Infantry--American--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,240 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-196900

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