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| Keywords: Famous Negro band greets United States soldiers on leave from trenches. The famous band of the 15th . . . - NARA - 533616.tif Scope and content The full caption for this item is as follows Famous Negro band greets United States soldiers on leave from trenches The famous band of the 15th African American Infantry New York National Guard on their way to the station at Aix les Bains to greet a trainload of our fighting men on leave The band was well known in New York before the outbreak of the war as James Reese Europe's band The Negro musicians enlisted in a body and their leader was commissioned a lieutenant General notes 533616 Local identifier 165-WW-127 124 War Department 1789 - 09/18/1947 NARA-Author International Film Service Photographer 544230 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1918 Record group Record Group 165 Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs 1860 - 1952 Record group ARC 494 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs compiled 1917 - 1918 Series ARC 533461 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-165-WW-127 124 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov James Reese Europe 369th Infantry Regiment United States | ||||