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• The Library of Congress 64 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 9 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 8 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 6 photos & illustrations
• British Library 5 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 4 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library NZ on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• East Riding Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration

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Company E of the 9th Infantry reading newspapers during the Spanish-American War

from Florida Memory

• kodaksights said:

  Good Photo , Dobrá fotografie Bună Foto Boa foto Jó fotó Fint foto

Maj. F.E. Evans (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Richard Norton said:

  Frank Edgar Evans (19 November 1876 – 25 November 1941) served as an infantryman in the Spanish–American War, and was commissioned in the United States Marine Corps on 15 February 1900. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Evans

• KenjiB_48 said:

  Appears to have been a captain at the time of this portrait.

• Film&PhotoArchivist said:

  He ended up a Brigadier General (USMC) www.arlingtoncemetery.net/feevans.htm Would appear to have a Sumner Class Destroyer (WWII era) named after him too.

• Arden said:

  Thank you all for the added details about Frank Edgar Evans and his military service. We will add some of the details to the record description when we update.

• Art Siegel said:

  In June, 1917, Major Frank E. Evans, was in charge of Marine Corps recruiting in New York. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0CE3D8123BE0...

Corp. Geo. Miner (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Corporal George Miner

• B-59 said:

  The Appeal., March 01, 1919, Image 1 printed a cropped version of this photo with the caption: "INDIAN ON GUARD - Corporal George Miner, D company, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry, a full-blooded Winnebago Indian from Tomah, Wis., on guard at the most advanced position of American troops in Germany. He is at a sentry post at Niederahren." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016810/1919-03-01/ed-...

• B-59 said:

  Niederähren is a part of Seifen (Westerwald) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seifen_(Westerwald)

• Art Siegel said:

  Number is different, but matches the description in Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "48488. Corpl. George Miner, Company D, One hundred twenty-eighth Regiment Infantry, on guard at Outpost No. 3. Corpl. Miner is a full blooded Winnebago Indian, from Toinah, Wis. In background, sign showing limits of outpost of Coblenz bridgehead, sector occupied by Thirty- second Division. Nilederahren, Germany. Rhenish Prussia. January 2, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n511/mode/2up