Object Details
- Description
- Charcoal and color sketch on paper. Large wagon in foreground. On the right, sitting up against a building, a line of American troops and French women are stripping willow boughs for baskets. Team of mules on the left. Trees in the background and hills in the distance. A label affixed to the lower right corner of the drawing reads: "1. x16392/IN BILLETS. American boys helping French women strip willow/bows [sic] for baskets./Reherry." The sketch is affixed to a larger piece of cardboard.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- War Department
- maker
- Morgan, Wallace
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- Physical Description
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 3/8 in x 22 in; 36.5125 cm x 55.88 cm
- sketch: 13 1/2 in x 19 3/4 in; 34.29 cm x 50.165 cm
- Object Name
- sketch
