Collections Item Detail - Hoboken Historical Museum

Stereoview: 14334 Americans glad to be home - awaiting trains for demobilization camp, Hoboken. Underwood & Underwood. N.d., ca. 1919-1920.

Photograph

DescriptionPhoto stereocard: 14334 - Americans glad to be home - awaiting trains for demobilization camp, Hoboken. Published by Underwood & Underwood, New York & Ottawa, Kansas; Works, West Arlington, N.J. U-256733. No date, circa 1919-1920. 3-1/2" high x 7" wide. Reverse is printed with title and two columns of text. See notes for text. This is the World War One Port of Embarkation now serving as the Port of Debarkation. U.S. Army soldiers are waiting to board a train (freight car is seen in the background which is unloading freight to trucks.) The men are just east of the headhouse apparently between piers 3 and 4. View is north with the Stevens Institute administration building just visible left top center in the far background. The crenellated tower seen in the background was at the southwest corner of River and Fourth Streets. See photo catalog 2007.003.0017 for another copy from this publisher, but the back does not have any text. ---- stereoview / stereo view / stereopticon / stereoscope / photo / photograph

Entry/Object ID

2012.001.0042

Acquisition

Accession

2012.001

Source or Donor

Purchase

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Museum Collections.

Made/Created

Artist

Underwood & Underwood

Date made

1919 - 1920

Place

Location

Hoboken

Notes

Date: 1919-1920

Dimensions

Height

4 in

Width

7 in

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Notes: 2012.001.0042, printed text on back of stereoview: 14334 Americans Glad to Be Home —- Awaiting Trains for Demobilization Camp, Hoboken. These Americans, thousands of them, standing about holding aluminum drinking cups are waiting for their first meal on United States soil after a period of overseas service. Their packs are lying on the ground, all of them made up in the regulation fashion but for the present discarded until the much more "important" business of eating is over. Behind that freight car which is being loaded with regimental baggage, you can see the Military Post Office of Hoboken and the low building next to it is the office of Headquarters, Port of Embarkation. The building on the top of the hill is one of the Stevens Institute group, and beneath it you can see the side of the Hudson Hut, one of the Y. M. C. A. buildings that catered to the comfort and needs of the men just returned from overseas. Before the Armistice only 15,000 men had been returned home, and a constant stream of men had been going overseas. The condition had to be reversed after the Armistice. This work of bringing back the men was carried on very expeditiously and in three months* time more men had been brought back and mustered out of the service than the entire number mustered out after the Civil War. Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-06-13