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21,000 soldiers arranged as a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, 1918.

Captured on September 5, 1918, at Ohio's Camp Sherman, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 95th Division.

In search of some eye-catching imagery to boost morale surrounding US involvement in WWI, the US military commissioned the English-born photographer Arthur Mole and his assistant John Thomas to make a series of extraordinary group portraits. Between 1915 and 1921, with the dutiful help of thousands of servicemen and staff from various US military camps, the duo produced around thirty of the highly patriotic images, which Mole labelled "living photographs".

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Photography team Mole & Thomas take this picture of Statue of Liberty made up of 18,000 officers and men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Ia.; Col. Wm. Newman, commanding; Col. Rush S. Wells, directing Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.

New-York Tribune publishes the picture on Sep 22 1918

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Dec 8 1917 in WWI

Photo was taken by Arthur Mole 

The Tacoma Times. December 8 1917

Betsy Ross gave the nation the first American flag. It was silken. Ten thousand American blue jackets have given Uncle Sam the most modern flag. It was human. The great living flag shown in the picture includes men from practically every state in the nation, who will soon be scattered on U. S. navy ships striking a blow for democracy. The human flag was made at the naval training station, Great Lakes, Ill., a few days.

Thin lines of white tape stretched along the ground guided the bluejackets as they began a seemingly weird formation. For half an hour the human mass writhed and twisted—still unrecognizable—until suddenly at a sharp command every man stood in his place at rigid salute and a perfect flag was formed. The picture was taken at an angle and therefore it was laid out by engineers so that it proper proportions "eye of the camera." For instance, in the star in the extreme left-band corner, there were 65 men, while in the one in the extreme front stars there were only 12 to the star. There were 290 men in the ball, 560 men In the pole, 300 men in the front stripe and 450 in the top stripe. The pole (not including the ball) measured 550 feet in length, three and a half feet in width at the bottom and six feet in width at the top.