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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 11:42 pm
by Pat Holscher
Originally posted by Texian
RE: Arms in Michigan Photo
Probably adding more confusion than clarity, but the gun on the far left horseman really looks like a single barrel shotgun broken open at the breech.
The others look more like shotguns to me as well, though perhaps wooden training "rifles"?
My screen just doesn't give a lot of detail.
I don't think that's a single barreled shotgun, opened up. I can see why it might look like that, however. What would appear to be the action, is actually a large belt buckle on his web belt.
I'm not any sort of expert on web belts, but does this raise another issue as to these soldiers gear?
I'm fairly convinced that they're carrying batons and probably something like the Winchester 95. Interesting mix of stuff. When they were federalized, I wonder how long it was before they were shifted into a non cavalry role and rearmed.
Pat
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:14 pm
by Texian
I guess we have to face the fact that there isn't that much detail. What does a polo stick look like? (Though I don't see any heads.)
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:33 am
by Pat Holscher
Some interesting photos in here some folks might enjoy taking a second look at.
Pat
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:23 am
by rayg
The scabbards look like they might be for the Patton sabre, (blunt end with out the tent peg spike) but they seem to have no sabres in them. Ray
RayG/Wisconsin
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:03 pm
by Pat Holscher
Here's an interesting one:
68th Brigade, 34 Division, Burro Mountain NM 1918
Nice example of the use of horses by officers in infantry outfits.
Pat
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:18 pm
by Pat Holscher
Note the mounted band.
Parade at Texas Tournament.
Pat
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:21 pm
by Pat Holscher
No cavalry connection, I just like the photo.
"]Early military aircraft[/url]
Pat
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:24 pm
by Pat Holscher
Texas National Guard, 1921
Texas National Guard
Pat
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:43 pm
by Pat Holscher
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:39 pm
by deddygetty
I've got a repro panoramic photo (eBay, of course) of the entire 2nd Cavalry Regt (mounted) at Ft Des Moines, IA, 1908.
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:26 pm
by deddygetty
Forgot to mention I just donated a couple nice panoramic photos (originals) to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment's Reed Museum at Ft Lewis, WA.
One was a group photo, seated and standing, of H Troop in front of their barracks, May 1921. The other was the entire Regiment mounted on the parade field at Ft Riley, 1921. I scanned the H Troop photo and posted it (in two parts) on the Second Cavalry Association's History Center. I forgot to scan the Regimental picture before I donated it. The H Troop photo can be seen here.
http://elpaso.ezoshosting.com/~dragoons ... _album.php
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:08 pm
by Pat Holscher
Texas City.
Pat
Re:
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:45 pm
by Pat Holscher
Pat Holscher wrote:Some interesting photos in here some folks might enjoy taking a second look at.
Pat
Re: The Big Picture (Military Panographic Photos)
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:35 pm
by Pat Holscher
Pat Holscher wrote:Panographic photos were very popular at one time. There's some really neat ones around, I thought it might be interesting to put some up for comment, using the Prompt feature.
Camp Kearney, CA Remounts 1917
Pat
Bumped up because I like this photograph.
Re: The Big Picture (Military Panographic Photos)
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:39 am
by browerpatch
The panoramic photos were taken with a camera designed to rotate anywhere up to 360 degrees. As the camera rotated, the film was drawn across an open, slotted shutter. The subjects were usually arranged in circle or semi-circle around the camera, which was the pivot point. If you were energetic enough, and the photographer didn't catch you, you could wait until it panned past you, run around to another point it hadn't gotten to yet, and appear in the same photo twice.
The film was a large enough format that the prints, especially the early ones, were usually contact prints, rather than enarged. Back in the early 1980's there was a photographer that went to reenactments to shoot panoramics. I think there is one or two in the museum/visitors center at the Olustee Battlefield in Florida from that event.
Remount Station
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:26 pm
by Pat Holscher
Remount Station 1917
Camp Funston
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:44 pm
by Pat Holscher
Camp Funston
Camp Cody, NM
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:48 pm
by Pat Holscher
Camp Cody, NM
Remount Horse Show
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:09 pm
by Pat Holscher
Remount Horse Show
Re:
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:38 am
by Pat Holscher
Pat Holscher wrote:Here's some National Guardsmen in 1917. Michigan National Guard. Take a close look at the scabbards, what longarm are they carrying?
Pat
Bump.
