African American Military Convalescent Patients

Contact print of a photograph of a group of African American convalescent patients, shown wearing their hospital gowns and hats [some of which appear handmade].

They are standing outside against a ward building at the Base Hospital at Camp Greene, N.C., during
World War I.

Some of the men’s “hats” are cut-off shredded wheat boxes. The men were U.S. Army soldiers who were stationed at Camp Greene.

Photograph taken while U.S. Army Dr. Philip A. Sheaff was serving at the Camp Greene Base Hospital (undated).

Source: WWI 50.B1.F10.2 - From Philip A. Sheaff Camp Greene Images, WWI 50, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C