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Description from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides , March 1 to June 1, 1918, p.11: " 4174 FOOT INSPECTION . Marines preparing for foot inspection." 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... A French government archive has this as well: "Le soin porté aux pieds par les soldats est très important : lavage après un entraînement et avant une inspection" ["The care taken of feet by the soldiers is very important: wash after training and before an inspection"] the archive dates this as taken on 3-27-18 www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

"New York City's famous Irish regiment, the Sixty-ninth Infantry, under command of Colonel Louis D. Conley, left for the mobilization at Beekman yesterday, and the command got a send-off from the thousands who witnessed its departure which its personnel will be a long time in forgetting. ..." NYT, June 22, 1916, "THOUSANDS CHEER AS 69TH MARCHES" (query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0E17F63A5B17...).

More on the New York National Guard's 69th:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_Infantry_Regiment_(New_York)
This shot was taken on Lexington Ave, between 25th and 26th Streets, in front of the Regiment's armory. Current street view:
maps.google.com/maps?q=lexington+avenue+and+25th+street&a...
and see notes under

Thanks B-59 and Art Siegel, we will update our record with the date and additional information.

Interesting to see a sailor armed with an M1903 Springfield rifle up in the tower. Then again, it's June 18, 1918. There's a war going on. . .