Soldiers of the Telephone
Soldiers of the Telephone
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- Description
- Charcoal sketch on white paper. Three American soldiers crouch in a trench. One soldier at left serves as the lookout while one soldier at right listens over the telephone. A third soldier at center holds a roll of telephone wire over his arm. There is a low fence on top of the hill in the background. A label affixed to the sketch reads: "'Soldiers of the Telephone.' Who stubbornly lay and keep open their wires under shell and machine-gun fire and who, often, well ahead of the tanks and the infantry are the 'eyes' as well as the 'ears' of the advancing columns - keeping Regimental H.Q. at all times in touch with its men."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Sketch
- date made
- 1918
- associated date
- 1917 - 1918
- associated person
- War Department
- Townsend, Harry
- artist
- Townsend, Harry
- Physical Description
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 in x 22 3/4 in; 45.72 cm x 57.785 cm
- ID Number
- AF.26124
- catalog number
- 26124
- accession number
- 64592
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- World War I
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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