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Blackford Family Papers ca. 1917

Staige D. Blackford

This collection consists of a single black and white photograph, 10 x 20 inches, ca. 1917, of Staige Davis Blackford( Johnnie Blackford) and his World War I unit, S.S.U. 516, one of two ambulance units formed at the University of Virginiain May 1917. The photograph was probably taken in the early fall of 1917 while the unit was training at Allentownor later at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Staige Davis Blackfordwrote a brief unit history for John S. Patton's Alumni Newspiece on the University in the Great War, later printed separately as The University of Virginia in the World War.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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