Burkburnett Texas, April 24, 1919.
On this day in 1919, Burkburnett Texas got a formal portrait. Seems like the oilfield was a bit close.
Officers of the 130th. The officer on the left, as viewed, is carrying a sidearm with that sidearm being a revolver, probably one of the two M1917 revolver types issued during World War One. Why he's under arms is unclear, unless of course the revolver is one that he owns, in which case it wouldn't have been a M1917. He's also wearing private purchase "trench boots", high leather boots, rather than the official issue field boots. Private purchase boots were common for officers. The officer next to him wears the regulation leather puttees that were common for artillerymen.
The 130th Field Artillery, part of the 35th Division and an artillery unit made up of Kansas National Guardsmen, arrived in New York on April 23 aboard the Mobile. the Bain News Service published its photographs of the unit on April 24.
The student staff of the Wyoming Student was photographed for this issue of their paper.
The Wyoming Student was the paper that became The Branding Iron, the student newspaper today and for many years. The presentation was quite a bit different, with the presentation both then and now being pretty good. What surprised me about this issue, and why I put it up, was the high standard of dress exhibited by the student staff. I don't think this would be repeated in a paper today, as I don't think you could find that many young men who owned suits. Quite a change in a century.
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