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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong small quarto. Measuring 11" x 7". String-tied black cloth over stiff paper boards with "Scrap Album" stamped in gilt on the front board as well as "C.E. Cockefair 2nd Lieutenant Q.M.C." handwritten in the corner of the front board. Contains 75 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2" x 3" and 4" x 6", some with captions. Very good album with slight edgewear with near fine photographs. A photo album compiled by New Jersey native, C.E. Cockefair while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Quartermaster Corps during the First World War. The album opens to a page with "Camp McClellan Anniston, Alabama" written in an arch over a photo of a woman with the caption, "the only girl." Following this he documents the camp itself with photos of the garage, the office, "the hub," and the dormitories. Cockefair's friend, Major Scott, is featured in photos throughout the album, posed around the barracks. Two African-American soldiers are pictured in the album including a cook in uniform and a soldier. Other men are seen posed in uniforms with army vehicles as well as military horses housed in stables at the barracks. One section of photos shows a well-dressed man dancing with a dog named "Queen." Men are seen posed with guns, on horseback, and writing letters. Camp McClellan was established in the summer of 1917 and was "one of 32 mobilization camps formed to quickly train men for World War I." In 1919 after the war had ended McClellan was one of nine facilities put on "caretaker status" and used as a training facility. According to *Who's Who in the Construction Division of the United States Army* C.E. Cockefair was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey and studied architecture and design construction at Pratt Institute. He was 2nd Lieutenant with the Quartermaster Corps, entering service in July of 1917, and was sent to Camp McClellan where he was given the title "Officer in Charge of Transportation Utilities Detachment Quartermaster Corps." A nice collection of WWI-era photographs depicting camp just after the war.