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Jones and Dennis Wile in front of darkroom tent
Content Note: Jones and Wile squat behind camp stove in front of darkroom tent in the woods. They had just crossed the Rhine River. Wile is holding a rifle. A similar photograph in a scrapbook is labeled "Deer fry" and identifies the man on the…
Kusiak and Arthur Goldberg in makeshift film drying room
Content Note: Kusiak and Goldberg examine photo negatives in a makeshift film drying room in Frankfurt, Germany. Strips of film hang from a string along the wall to their left. Kusiak and Goldberg are identified in a scrapbook with another copy of…
"This was one of my darkrooms, Honey, some Nazi officials office."
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "Check my left hand, and ignore my haircut. This one I took myself just for you. Love, Dennee" Self portrait of Wile standing in a makeshift darkroom. On the righthand side,…
Self Portrait of Dennis Wile with his photographic materials
Content Note: Self portrait of Wile seated at a table with many of his photographic equipment and photo processing supplies. The bellows camera is his first camera, given to him by his mother.
Self Portrait of Dennis Wile [photo of wife in background]
Content Note: Self portrait of Wile seated at a desk. A portrait of his wife is visible in the background.
"Not to Happy" [leaving England to go to France]
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Wile leans against the railing of the ship during the trip to Le Havre, France, after completing training in England.
American soldiers relax around a piano at a Red Cross Center in Weston-Super-Mare, England
Content Note: Five men and a woman stand around a piano at a Red Cross facility. Arthur Goldberg is plays the piano while the others watch. Taken during training in England.
"Wile and Anderson room, the Cairo Hotel, Room 58, [Weston-Super-Mare,] England"
Content Note: Caption taken from writing on reverse of photo. Additional caption text: "21 November 1944. " Five men in Army uniforms sit on a cot. Front row, left to right: Brandli, Curren, colonel's driver. Back row, left to right: Wile,…
Dennis Wile poses as an English school boy in Weston-Super-Mare, England
Content Note: Writing on reverse of another copy of the photograph: "Welsh Corgis and Dennie. Which is which? How do you like my 'frosh' lid? Looks Northeastern style." Dennis Wile stands next to a bicycle holding a Corgi [dog]. Taken in England…
Army soldiers travelling to England aboard the SS Sea Owl
Content Note: U.S. Soldiers travelling from the United States to England aboard the liberty ship SS Sea Owl. Back row, left to right: Hobson, Anderson, and Wile. Front row, left to right: Punch, Kusiak, and Thumler.