Camp Dix Pictorial Review - Content - November 1917

The first Issue of the Camp Dix Pictorial Review: A Picture History of a National Army Cantonment, Wrightstown, New Jersey, November 1917 documents the building of Camp Dix along with its famous builders, Artillery Companies, and Officers.The paper was produced for the soldiers, parents, and friends.

24 Pages of Photographs of the World War One Training Camp.

Contents of the Camp Dix Pictorial

Pages 1-10 Building Camp Dix

P. 11

Irwin & Leighton Heads of Departments and a Few Assistants, Field Staff, Camp Dix.

Irwin & Leighton Heads of Departments and a Few Assistants, Field Staff, Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d5877adc

Back row (left to right)—George Wilson, Supt. Sheet Metal Works; Alex. Kuttner, J. Walter Butcher, Supt. Road Constr.; N. C. Merrill, Assistant Supt. Water and Sewers; F. J. Seery, Supt. Water and Sewers; James Hopler, Supt. Sec. 6; Chas. Clark, Supt. Sec. 4; C. H. Brownell, Supt. Sec. 9; Leo Kelly, Ass’t Supt. Water and Sewers; Thos. C. Carpenter, Secretary; Henry Buckholtz, Supt. New Lisbon Pumping Station; Frank Gable, Supt. Disposal Waste Material.

Second row (left to right)—Harry Coffin, Jr.; Howard Lynch, Supt. Sec. 5; John Hogelgantz, Supt. Sec. 1; Charles Benson, Supt. Sec. 8; V. E. Winell, Supt. Sec. 3; Chas. B. Smith, Supt. Sec. 7; Wynne A. Murphy, Chief Quantity Surveyor; Dan Boorse, Supt. Concrete Work; M. J. Dixon, Supt. R. R. Constr.

Front row (left to right)—Jas. MacBrine, Supt. Stores and Garage; A. M. Ward, Chief Pur. Agt.; Wm. Kuehnle, Supt. of D. V.; V. W. O’Neill, Secretary; John H. Moffett, Ass’t Gen’l Supt.; Jos. F. Lynch, Gen’l Supt.; P. J. Houlahan, Secretary; A. W. Hill, Supt. Plumbing; W. B. McGhee, Chief Engineer; Jos. Herzog, Team Foreman.

Camp Dix Sanitary Train Barracks, Section 1 (3 August 1917).

Camp Dix Sanitary Train Barracks, Section 1 (3 August 1917). The One-story Extension Noticed on Every Barrack Is the Kitchen. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d5d5ec29

Soldier Traffic Cops.

Soldier Traffic Cops. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d5f896af

During the later part of the construction period at Camp Dix, the 3rd Battalion of the 15th Colored Infantry of New York, under the command of Major E. W. Dayton, were on guard. The upper left-hand corner picture shows a number of them acting as traffic policemen on a Sunday afternoon. In the lower left-hand corner is a view of the band stand of this battalion on a Sunday afternoon. The band is under the direction of Lieut. James Reese Europe, the well-known colored orchestra leader.

Camp Dix Refrigerating Plant

Camp Dix Refrigerating Plant - Makes Twenty Tons of Ice Daily and Refrigerates Many Carloads of Perishable Food Products. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d60676ba

Going Home Sunday Afternoon

Going Home Sunday Afternoon. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d63ea462

A Line of Selected Men Arriving in Camp Dix

A Line of Selected Men (Recruits) Arriving in Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d6b084ae

Part of 3rd Battalion of the 15th New York (African-Americans)

Part of 3rd Battalion of the 15th New York (African-Americans) - Our Grandfathers Gave These Boys Their Freedom and Here They Stand Ready to Fight That We Shall Not Be Slaves. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d747b460

Lieut. Europe’s Band Played Every Day and Was a Center of Attraction Sundays

Lt. Europe’s Band Played Every Day and Was a Center of Attraction Sundays. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d752e7d4

Boxing at Camp Dix

Boxing at Camp Dix - the Officers in Charge of Athletics Are Strongly Featuring the Science of Boxing as a Means of Physical Development, and a Professional Trainer Has Been Engaged. This Scene Shows One of the Many Bouts Which Have Taken Place in the Last Few Weeks. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d7aa1295

Squad Detailed to Police Duty

Squad Detailed to Police Duty. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d7e19d8d

When the [African-American] boys of the N. Y. 15th were sent South, Colonel J. S. Battle was appointed Commander of Military Police, and under his direction privates who had been policemen in civil life were detailed to the military police force of the Camp. They are distinguished, when on duty, by a blue arm band carrying the initials M. P. in white.

309th Field Artillery Band

309th Field Artillery Band - upon the Formation of Each Regiment a Band Leader Is Selected with Instructions to Pick the Best Talent Available in the Regiment, and Everyone Who Considered Himself Able to Handle an Instrument Was Given a Try-out, and, after a Series of Elimination Tests, Bands Have Been Formed in Each Regiment. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d82095d0

Overlooking a Section of Barracks

Overlooking a Section of Barracks. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d89d54f2

Capt. Louis Hertz - Battery E, 309th Heavy Field Artillery.

Capt. Louis Hertz - Battery E, 309th Heavy Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d8e68795

Digging Trenches through a Camp Dix Cornfield

Digging Trenches through a Camp Dix Cornfield. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d8f3fa8e

Irwin & Leighton Employment Office

Irwin & Leighton Employment Office. The Happy Hunting Ground for Thousands of Workmen. Seventeen Clerks Were Employed Examining Applicants Who Arrived by Train and Motortruck. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d94c46d0

The Switchboard at Camp Dix

The Switchboard at Camp Dix. Camp Dix Telephones - a City of 40,000 Inhabitants Requires a Complete Telephone System of Its Own. Eighteen Operators Are Employed at the Switchboard. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d952e0bf

Fleet Car Used For Weekly Payroll

Fleet Car Used for Weekly Payroll - Picture above Is That of One of a Fleet of Automobiles That Go Every Week to Philadelphia for the Contractors' Payroll. Picture Taken in Front of Field Headquarters. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d97b1c45

An Example of Efficiency

An Example of Efficiency - the Same Poles Are Used for Carrying Light and Telephone Wires, and on Those along the Streets Will Hang the Lighting Brackets. Main Line Looking West. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19d989c614

Leaving the Philadelphia National Bank with Payroll for Camp Dix

Leaving the Philadelphia National Bank with Payroll for Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19da2e3c42

Flag-Raising Scenes

Flag-raising Scenes - Every One of the Ten Sections Had a Flag-raising Day. By Voluntary Contributions, among the Men the Price of the Flag Was Paid. on an Appointed Day a Platform Was Erected from Which Prominent Speakers Addressed the Men, a Military Band Usually Played and Old Glory Was Flung to the Breeze. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19da5d8cea

Erecting a Water Tower

Erecting a Water Tower. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dab3c72c

“Spick” the Mascot of Motortruck Co. 66—a Mexican Hairless

“Spick” the Mascot of Motortruck Co. 66—a Mexican Hairless. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dac97d08

Even the Ears of Corn Grow Big in Camp Dix

Even the Ears of Corn Grow Big in Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dae413f0

Observation Tower near Division Headquarters Overlooking the Entire Cantonment.

Observation Tower near Division Headquarters Overlooking the Entire Cantonment. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19daf3a2a8

One of the Railroad Sidings

One of the Railroad Sidings. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19db0fb24c

Capt. Hamilton Fish, Jr., 3rd Company K, 3rd Battery, 15th N. Y. Infantry.

Capt. Hamilton Fish, Jr., 3rd Company K, 3rd Battery, 15th N. Y. Infantry. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19db44ead8

Camp Dix Telephone Exchange Building

Camp Dix Telephone Exchange Building. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19db895108

Mr. I. D. Irwin, Jr. (Of Irwin & Leighton, the Builders of Camp Dix), and a Group of Executives

Mr. I. D. Irwin, Jr. (of Irwin & Leighton, the Builders of Camp Dix), and a Group of Executives. (Left to right) W. A. Murphy, Quantity Surveyor; Jos. F. Lynch, Gen’l Supt.; John H. Moffett, Ass't Gen’l Supt.; V. E. Winell, Supt. Section 8; W. B. McChee, Chief Engineer; I. D. Irwin, Jr.; C. A. Townsend, Office Manager. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19db9a273f

Mr. A. O. Leighton - of Irwin & Leighton

Mr. A. O. Leighton - of Irwin & Leighton. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dbc0afe9

Field Hospital before the National Army Arrived

Field Hospital before the National Army Arrived. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dbf19847

One of the YMCA Buildings at Camp Dix

One of the YMCA Buildings at Camp Dix - the YMCA Has Ten Buildings in Camp Dix, Nine Very Similar to the One above, and an Auditorium Seating More than Three Thousand. the Knights of Columbus Have Three Auditoriums. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dc47b461

Capt. Napoleon B. Marshall - Company I, 3rd Battalion, 15th N. Y. Infantry.

Capt. Napoleon B. Marshall - Company I, 3rd Battalion, 15th N. Y. Infantry. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dc8b309f

Police Chief Joseph Taylor

Police Chief Joseph Taylor in the Contractors' Service. Good-Natured on Pose but Stern on Duty. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dc9f69d0

The Knights of Columbus Auditorium

The Knights of Columbus Auditorium. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dcbf4414

Steam turbine and pump unit

Steam Turbine and Pump Unit That Sends More than 1000 Gallons per Minute a Distance of Three Miles and Lifts It into a Tower 245 Feet Higher than the Water Level. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dccff49b

Digging a Trench through the Soft Clay

Digging a Trench through the Soft Clay of Camp Dix at the Rate of Four Feet a Minute. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd03b0aa

Three Water Towers

Three Water Towers - the Farmers’, the Contractors’ and a 200,000-gallon Steel Service Tank in the course of Erection for the Army. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd1de163

24-Inch Vitrified Clay Sewer Main

24-Inch Vitrified Clay Sewer Main. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd7ead06

Miles of Water and Sewer Pipe Were Accumulated

Miles of Water and Sewer Pipe Were Accumulated. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd84b845

A Group of Buildings in Camp Dix—Arrangement Looking down the Parade Ground.

A Group of Buildings in Camp Dix—Arrangement Looking down the Parade Ground. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd90517b

  • No. 1 is a row of officers’ lavatories;
  • No. 2, officers’ quarters;
  • No. 3, a two-story regimental medical building;
  • No. 4, a guard house;
  • No. 5, a main longitudinal street;
  • No. 6, a group of barracks.

The officers’ buildings are on one side of the street, and the privates’ on the other.

309th Heavy Field Artillery

309th Heavy Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dd925d94

Battery D, 309th Heavy Field Artillery

Battery D, 309th Heavy Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19ddd9dcdd

Battery C, 309th Heavy Field Artillery

Battery C, 309th Heavy Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19ddf17d9b

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19de04031c

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917 - Second Group

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917 - Second Group. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19de6f72f6

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery - Third Group

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery - Third Group. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dea7a000

Carpenters Making Army Coal Boxes

Carpenters Making Army Coal Boxes. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dea9b0f1

Sunday, September 30th, an Endless Line of Automobiles on a Main Street.

Sunday, September 30th, an Endless Line of Automobiles on a Main Street. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19deb78c2f

New Rookies in a Barrack—Some in Uniforms and Others Civilian-Clad

New Rookies in a Barrack—Some in Uniforms and Others Civilian-Clad. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19deee7480

Group of Instructing Cooks and Bakers

Group of Instructing Cooks and Bakers. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19df131d48

Looking down One Section of the Parade Ground

Looking down One Section of the Parade Ground. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19df662b26

Floor Plan of a 167-Men Barrack.

Floor Plan of a 167-Men Barrack. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dfa902eb

The size as detailed above was once considered ample to house and feed 200 men, but it was later decided to reduce the number of occupants to 167. By adopting the European company number of 250 men, three barracks accommodate two companies.

The first barrack of the three contains 167 men of one company, the next barrack is divided so that one end is occupied by 83 men of the first company and the other end by 83 men of the second company. The third barrack contains the balance of the Second company.

The plan above shows the first floor only. The kitchen is in a one-story extension, and all of the second floor, 120 feet long, is taken up by sleeping quarters divided by a partition. Four heating stoves are in each barrack—two upstairs and two down.

Filling the Pipe Trenches

Filling the Pipe Trenches. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19dfce7c81

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, Group 1

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, Group 1. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e02fd972

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917, Group 2

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917, Group 2. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e034c505

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917, Group 3

Battery D, 308th Field Artillery, October 1917, Group 3. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e05c570f

P. 21

Company 4, 1st Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade, Capt. F. R. Kerman

Company 4, 1st Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade, Capt. F. R. Kerman - New Men Are First Assigned to Depot Brigades and Later Transferred to Regiments. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e07c10b2

19th Company, 5th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade—Boys from Buffalo and Rochester, NY

19th Company, 5th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade—Boys from Buffalo and Rochester, NY. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e08f724a

Company I, 311th Infantry, Capt. Frederick S. Laing

Company I, 311th Infantry, Capt. Frederick S. Laing. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e0bdbeb6

Registering Liberty Loan at Camp Dix.

Registering Liberty Loan at Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e0c139d2

The First Military Company at Camp Dix

The First Military Company at Camp Dix. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e0e6a02d

3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade

3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e1012e01

Part of Battery A, 308th Field Artillery—Capt. H. R. Leonard

Part of Battery A, 308th Field Artillery—Capt. H. R. Leonard. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e10b4cab

Another Group of Battery A, 308th Field Artillery

Another Group of Battery A, 308th Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e130ae74

Capt. H. R. Leonard - Battery A, 308th Field Artillery

Capt. H. R. Leonard - Battery A, 308th Field Artillery. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e204f156

Watching the Athletic Games, Monday Afternoon, November 5th 1917

Watching the Athletic Games, Monday Afternoon, November 5th 1917. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e27d9e46

Waiting on a Conference

Waiting on a Conference. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e28af641

At the Railroad Station on a Saturday Morning – When the Boys Are off Home on Furlough.

At the Railroad Station on a Saturday Morning – When the Boys Are off Home on Furlough. Camp Dix Pictorial Review, November 1917. GGA Image ID # 19e298a472

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