Title: Company F, 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Still Images
Inclusive Dates: 1898-

Creator:

• Company F, 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment,

Call Number: WVM Mss 1407

Quantity: 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box) of contact prints, 0.2 linear ft. (1 negative box) of negatives, 0.2 linear ft. (1 negative box) of interpositives.

Repository:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)

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Abstract:

Still images documenting the participation of Company F, 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Spanish-American War. The company was organized out of militia from Racine, Wisconsin and was send to Camp Harvey, Wisconsin where it was attached to the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. From there, the regiment was sent to Jacksonville, Florida and spent the entire war stationed at Camp Cuba Libre. The company returned to Wisconsin in September, 1898 and was mustered out in Racine. The collection includes negatives, interpositives and contact prints pertaining to the training of the unit at Camp Harvey, being stationed in Florida during the war, and its return to Wisconsin to be mustered out. The bulk of the collection depicts the company while based at Camp Cuba Libre near Jacksonville, Florida. Included are images of individual soldiers, officers, and groups of men posing and relaxing near their tents and around the camp. Also included are interesting images of soldiers standing in dinner lines, shaving, doing laundry, working kitchen patrol, conducting drills, and performing various labor tasks. Other interesting images from the camp include an image of a horse drawn ambulance and various photographs of the company band. The collection includes some images of soldiers in Jacksonville, various shots of local residents and scenery, a military parade, and what appears to be a public hanging. Images from Camp Harvey depict the unit undergoing drills and training, and also include images of the unit's rooster mascot. The return celebration of the unit is documented in images of the residents honoring the soldiers at Monument Square and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot in Racine. Also included in the collection are a series of images of trains and locomotives that include an interesting view of a Pullman car with “Company F Racine” written on the side, and a series of images depicting a train accident. Interpositives and negatives have been identified to their corresponding contact prints.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.wvm-mss01407

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Racine Heritage Museum, Racine, WI, 1998. Accession Number: TR0827 and Mss 2005.43.

Processing Information

Processed by Andrew J. Baraniak in 2011

	Series: Contact Prints
	Subseries: Florida
Box   1 Folder   1	Camp Cuba Libre [9] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   2	Company Band [2] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   3	Horse-Drawn Carriage [2] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   4	Officers [4] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   5	On Horseback [3] , 1898
	Soldiers
Box   1 Folder   6	Bugler [1] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   7	Dinner Line [2] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   8	Drill and Training [4] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   9-10	Groups [15] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   11	Large [7] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   12-13	Small [15] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   14	Posing with Weapons [5] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   15	Individuals [11] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   16	K.P. Duty [1] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   17	Labor [5] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   18	Laundry [1] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   19	Shaving [3] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   20	Jacksonville [4] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   21	Local Residents [3] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   22	Officers [4] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   23	Parade [3] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   24	Public Hanging [2] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   25	Soldiers [8] , 1898
	Subseries: Wisconsin	⇧
	Camp Harvey
Box   1 Folder   26	Drill [3] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   27	Mascot [2] , 1898
	Racine
Box   1 Folder   28	Monument Square [2] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   29	St. Paul Depot [3] , 1898
	Subseries: Transportation	⇧
Box   1 Folder   30	Locomotives [3] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   31	Company F Pullman car [1] , 1898
Box   1 Folder   32	Train Crash [4] , 1898
Box   2 Folder   1-131	Series: Interpositives	⇧
Box   3 Folder   1-131	Series: Duplicate Negatives	⇧