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Keystone View Company An Interesting Scene in the Social Room of a Y.M.C.A Army Camp Hut

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.216 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

In this scene men are sitting in a social room of the Y.M.C.A. Some are reading and others and socializing. Many of them, according to the photographs, are writing letters home.

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