Black and white photograph of an African American soldier participating in occupational therapy by weaving a cord of yarn. The soldier's arm is in a sling with a splint visible below his hand and forearm.
Image is from photo album 2018.138.0 which contains 271 images related to U.S. Base Hospital No. 114 at the Hospital Center in Beau Desert, France. Images include hospital patients, occupational therapy, medical personnel, French civilians, and souvenir travel photographs.
African American stevedores in an undated photo during WWI. African American supply and services units provided a great amount of labor for the arriving American Expeditionary Forces in France in 1917-18.
The full caption for this item is as follows: Famous [African American] regiment arrives home on the France. Heroes of 369th (old 15th) New York [African American] Infantry, first of Colonel Hayward's command, return to this country, ready to debark at Hoboken, New Jersey. These men covered themselves with glory on the battlefields of France and not a man was captured by the Huns. Soldier in center is wearing a helmet which he took from one of the Huns.
