✅ SOLVED Can anbody tell me anything about this old photo.

[Mud Hut]

Printed on card stock and dated 1914.

 

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[OWK]

Looks like a hand-colored photo of WWI US soldiers in a old-timey bluegrass band.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Likely taken in the United States - as the first U.S. troops went to Europe in 1917.

 

[cw0909]

the guy on far left sitting has white shoes, instead of brown boots
looks like these maybe

Bass Buckingham White Nubuck - Zappos.com Free Shipping BOTH Ways
or these
Classic Buck Shoe by Jos. A. Bank

 

[Mud Hut]

Thanks Guys ! I appreciate your thoughts.

 

[BosnMate]

The picture is hand painted, so the colors mean nothing. White shoes and blue socks, I don't think so. However, there are no collar insignias, none on the hat, no rank stripes. WWI the soldiers didn't wear leggins, they
wrapped their leg with a strip of cloth -- I don't know what that was called. The leggins don't look right to me, and that's where I'd start my research.

 

[Mud Hut]

The picture is hand painted, so the colors mean nothing. White shoes and blue socks, I don't think so. However, there are no collar insignias, none on the hat, no rank stripes. WWI the soldiers didn't wear leggins, they
wrapped their leg with a strip of cloth -- I don't know what that was called. The leggins don't look right to me, and that's where I'd start my research.

I thought maybe a CCC thing, but I don't know. I will follow up on your observations to see what I can find. Thanks.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Printed on card stock and dated 1914.

Its Creedence Clearwater...before the revival...lol j/k

I second WW1 photo

 

[diggummup]

The picture is hand painted, so the colors mean nothing. White shoes and blue socks, I don't think so. However, there are no collar insignias, none on the hat, no rank stripes. WWI the soldiers didn't wear leggins, they
wrapped their leg with a strip of cloth -- I don't know what that was called. The leggins don't look right to me, and that's where I'd start my research.

They look like typical WW1 era M1911 uniforms to me. A private wouldn't have much in the form of insignia on his uniform or Campaign hat. In WW1 they had both types of leggings, the British Puttee wrap style and several variations of canvas leggings including the m1904, 1907, 1910 and 1917 models, they even had leather leggings. Here is a photo of a soldier wearing the typical m1910 canvas type-

 

[BosnMate]

I take back what I said, they did have leggins.
The guy on the left has leggins, and the other two have wraps, and in my research I found out they are called "puttees."

 

[HenryWaltonJonesJr]

Looks a bit like Andy Warhol did the coloring!

 

[Mud Hut]

Thanks again for your thoughts. I will go ahead and mark this solved.

 

[littleneckhalfshell]

How come no one mentioned the Boy Scouts ? Google Boy Scout uniform 1914

 

[clovis97]

I thought maybe a CCC thing, but I don't know. I will follow up on your observations to see what I can find. Thanks.

The Civilian Conservation Corps wasn't orgainized until the 1930's, during the depression, as part of the New Deal legislation.

 

[diggummup]

How come no one mentioned the Boy Scouts ? Google Boy Scout uniform 1914
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Boy Scout uniforms of that era are a close match, but for me the tell tale sign are the campaign hats. Well... that and their ages. They look a little old to be Boy Scouts.

 

[cw0909]

scout masters/leaders,would have more decoration on the uniform
prob one of these

Corps of Engineers
American Expeditionary Forces
World War 1 Uniforms
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/023/23-6/CMH_Pub_23-6.pdf

 

[lockster99]

Them's some big boy scouts.