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Huddled Masses: Some American Groups in Photographs is an exhibition curated by and drawn from the collection of W.M. Hunt At a time when the Covid-19 Pandemic has made it impossible to meet in large groups, this exhibition is a timely reminder of the sociability of humans and their desire to come together rather than remain apart. Hunt is particularly interested in the idea of crowd control. He observes how by looking at the people captured in the photographs it is clear they know how to behave in a group photograph, packing themselves in shoulder to shoulder and looking bright-eyed at the photographer, “saying cheese” and smiling. People come together for many different reasons, to play sports, to enjoy family celebrations, to be part of a company photograph. In each case and in each of the corresponding images there can be seen a collective desire to be remembered as part of their group, proud to stand next to their companions.

A living flag covering seven acres composed of ten thousand Blue Jackets under Command of Captain W.A. Moffett, at the worlds greatest Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, November 1917

30,000 Officers & Men, at Camp Custer, Battle Creek Mich, Brig. Gen Howard L. Laubauch, Commanding, 1918

27,000 Officers & Men, at Camp Dix, New Jersey, General Hugh L. Scott CMDR., 1918

18,000 Officers and Men, at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, IA., Col. Wm. Newman Commanding. Col. Rush S. Wells, Directing, 1918

Plymouth (Twelfth) Division, Major General HP McCain Commanding, Camp Devens, MA. December 3, 1918

Brig Gen. Don C. Fait administers Oath to WACS joining Army, Daytona Beach, FLA. Aug 3, 1945

July 22, 1925 - Walther League Party - Tour No. 1, En Route to San Francisco Convention, “Looking Pleasant” on Mountain Parks Drive.

American Expeditionary Forces, 1917 - 1918

Schofield Bks, 1935

Ernest Harmon Airforce Base, NFLD, 1952, Colonel C.E. Hughes "Comdg."

Oversea Florida East Coast R. R., Feb. 12,1912

Cleveland, Ohio, September 21, 1926

The Midland Grocery Co. of Ohio, to Washington D.C. & Atlantic City, N.J., June 26 - July 1, 1916

Nov. 7, 1913, Automobile Manufacturers in the World. Col. Ohio, Annual Capacity 40,000 cars.

MA, 1904

Somewhere in America, Feb 18, 1942

June 13, 1951 (Firefighters in Rome)

Chicago, IL, Dec 12, 1950

Washington D.C., May 5, 1971

New York, NY, Nov 13, 1951

Santa Monica Pier, 1926

New York World’s Fair (Operators #1-19), 1939

Group of boys with ropes (#1 - 12), 1950s

Group of Women, numbered, lined up, in bathing suits and top hats with eye holes, 1936

New York City, 1930

1939

Public Auditorium, Cleveland, OH.,1936

Reading Pennsylvania, 1914

1886

Company E, 28th Engineers, Campy Mills, NY, 1904

K.C. MO., 1923

1909

1912

1939

MA. late 19th Century

Venango, PA, Decoration Day, May 1924

IN, undated

Group of Workers, Canneries Company, undated

Libby McNeill & Libby, California Fruits and Vegetables-Selma Plant, California, 1930

August 18, 1934

1930

Indianapolis, IN, 1922

A Quiet Sunday Afternoon at Coney Island. Part of an Immense Crowd of Million on the Beach On A Day When the Thermometer in the City Registered above 90, Aug 6, 1933

August 20, 1886, By Invitation Of Mr. George W Childs.

Early 20th Century

Presented to Caleb Rand Lodge No. 197, I.O.D.E. by George T. Rand, P.G. Feb 1914, Degree Master 1892-1912, Taken May 22, 1901

No. 93, I.O.O.F., Ins t’d Dec.9, 1890

Photo by Century Flashlight Photographers, Inc. National Tribute to Evangeline Booth, General Elect of Salvation Army, Madison Square Garden, New York City, Nov.1, 1934