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This is a photograph showing the training of new draftees at Camp Funston. Camp Funston was located on the Fort Riley military reservation near Junction City, Kansas. The facility, named after Brigadier General Frederick Funston, was the largest of 16 divisional cantonment training camps built during World War I to house and train soldiers for military duty.
Date: 1917
Item Number: 308245
Call Number: FK2.G2 C. 8 *3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 308245
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1910s - 1917
Military - Equipment - Animals - Horses
Military - Facilities - Camps - Camp Funston
Military - Service - Army
Military - Service - Recruiting - Recruits
Military - Service - Training
Military - Wars - World War I
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Forts and military installations - Camp Funston
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs
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