Cool old photo

[DaveDragon]

Cool old photo
http://www.bmwlt.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15566

[Wolfgang]

Do you know what year that was?

[DaveDragon]

Do you know what year that was?

No idea, sorry.

[amarider]

Here it is - July 1918
http://www.snopes.com/photos/patriotic/liberty.asp

[myk_edwards]

Do you know what year that was?

servicemen posing in formation to represent the Statue of Liberty was shot in 1918 by Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas to rally support for the overseas war effort.

Comments: True. This image matches one in the U.S. National Archives credited to photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas, captioned as follows: "18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Commanding. Colonel Rush S. Wells, Directing." The picture was taken in July 1918.

"Human Statue of Liberty" was one of a series of group photographs (http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi%2Dbin/query/p%3Fpp/app%2Cgrabill%2Clomax%2Cpan%2Cwtc%2Cils%2Cvv%2Cgottscho%2Cdetr%2Cbbcards%2Cprok%2Cnclc%2Cfsa:%40FILREJ%28%40FIELD%28CALL%2B%40od1%28LOT%25205357%29%29%2B%40FIELD%28COLLID%2Bcoll%29%29::SortBy=DOCID) taken by Mole and Thomas during and immediately after World War I at U.S. military training camps. Each took up to a week to compose and shoot using an 11" x 14" view camera perched atop an 80-foot tower. According to photography historian Louis Kaplan, these so-called "living sculptures" served as "rallying points to support American involvement in the war and to ward off isolationist tendencies."