[Oklahoma Photographica]: [U.S. Army Artillery Training School]:

$1,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA THE WORLD'S LARGEST ARTILLERY TRAINING POST. A rare, commercially produced photo album, rendered unique by the addition of thirty original photographs of the U.S. Army Artillery Training School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, at the end of World War I.The first section begins with a printed one-page "Short History of the Fort Sill Military Reservation" and consists of mounted photographs in printed frames with printed captions. This printed portion of album is divided into three parts with individual titles: "Fort Sill, Oklahoma: The World's Largest Artillery Training Post"; "Medicine Park: Southwest Oklahoma's Pleasure Resort"; and "Some Views of the Comanche and Apache Indians." The second section of the album consists of blank pages for personal photographs, here filled with thirty photographs with occasional manuscript captions supplied by an unnamed Army corporal. In addition to photographs of camp buildings, artillery emplacements, and scenery in and around Fort Sill, the album features a number of photographs of the 1918 Victory Day Parade, as well as a "pageant" held at the fort where members of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes participated in reenactments of the early frontier days at the fort. Fort Sill was also the birthplace of U.S. combat aviation in 1915, and a few photographs show some of the earliest military planes. The personal photos at the rear of the album include a number of individual soldiers, a handful of alternate views of parades and events

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