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Date on negative, 5-27-18.The buffalo head on the wall and buffalo insignia on the door on the stage probably mark this as a facility of the "Buffalo Soldiers", segregated African-American units of the military.

Thanks Art Siegel for noticing the buffalo head on the wall and the insignia. This is probably the "Buffalo Auditorium" which was built and paid for by the African American 367th Infantry (sometimes known as the Buffalo Soldiers) stationed at Camp Upton. All soldiers at the camp used the facility for training and recreation. The 367th regiment coat of arms, an image of the exterior of the auditorium, and more information can be found here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t4wh32p21;v... and here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924066373329;view=1u...

Very interesting.

Description from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides , March 1 to June 1, 1918 " 4181 SATURDAY NIGHT IN FRANCE The Army scrub as undergone by our boys in France" Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lp... French government archive dates picture as 3/19/18,, with caption: "Une méthode pour se laver loin d'être habituelle" [An unusual method for washing] www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

From "Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs", Published 1919 "4181 The Bath, Fifth Marines, St. Nazaire, France." archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n153/mode/2up

Thanks Art Siegel. we will add the location and other details to the description.

Find-A-Grave - Lowell Thayer Wasson (1890-1918) "Notable Missourians involved in ‘The War to End All Wars’," by Paul Johns, Buffalo Reflex (Buffalo, MO), May 3, 2017

[...] Lowell T. Wasson of Ozark. Born in 1890, he was the only son of James A. and Mary (Jones) Wasson, who were living on a farm near Riverdale at the time of his death. Lowell was a 2nd Lieutenant in Company M of the 120 Infantry and was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium in 1918. A graduate of Drury College, he was 16 days shy of his 28th birthday and he left behind no wife, no children, no grandchildren and no great-grandchildren.

Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918, by Mitchell A. Yockelson, 2008, Page 102:

Friendly fire incidents were an unfortunate consequence of war. The 30th Division had recently lost two ment this way. . . . An officer in Company M of the 120th Infantry, 2nd Lt. Lowell T. Wasson, was shot by a private from his unit on 7 August [1918]. Wasson apparently became confused after returning from a patrol near Swan Chateau and entered a listening post unannounced. The private guarding the post was ordered to fire on Wasson hy his superiors, who thought the intruder was a German conducting a trench raid. . . . Brigadier General Tyson concluded that in Wasson's case, the shooting could have been avoided. "Orders will be issued to prevent a recurrence of such deplorable results," Tyson wrote in his report.

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