Photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas created a series of ‘living photographs’ in the early 1900′s using thousands of United States soldiers just returning home from World War One.
Human Statue of Liberty, 1918 at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, IA
Arthur’s great nephew Joseph Mole, 70, says: “In the picture of the Statue of Liberty there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom.”
Living Portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, 1918
Formed of 21,000 officers and men at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio
The Human U.S. Shield, 1918
Formed of 30,000 men at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, MI
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I like these. They’re great.