SCARCE PHOTO ALBUM OF THE 1917-18 EXPEDITIONARY INTERVENTION IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR,
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album includes 82 images, of which 58 are real photo postcards, 23 are small snap shot silver gelatin photos and one 7" x 9" silver print of the U.S.S. Great Northern, a troop transport vessel. Many of the photographs show U.S. troops, others Russian and other nationalities, one of the mayor of Vladivostok, guarding trains, General Siminoff, refugees, lady of the evening, Y.M.C.A. building, various U.S., Russian and other ships in harbor, field kitchen, piles of bodies in snow covered city streets labeled Scene after Battle, loading American bodies for transport in flag draped coffins, and other images, all pasted to album pages and bound in canvas covered horizontal 4to album.During the Russian Revolution, on Aug. 13, 1918, the 31st U.S. Infantry was sent from Manila to Siberia. Its mission was to prevent allied war material at the port of Vladivostok from falling into the hands of the Red Army. The 31st shipped out of Fort William McKinley to Manila, and from there to Vladivostok, Siberia, arriving on Aug. 21. The regiment was split into various detachments and used to guard the Trans-Siberian railway, as well as some branch lines. For two years, the 31st and the 27th Infantry Regiment, fought with the Red Army, who were trying to gain control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They also prevented the Japanese from taking control
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