9th Infantry boys' morning wash /

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life. Soap and towels too. Every man jack of them looks as if he were enjoying the wash immensely, and also the novelty of having his picture taken. The big fellow in the center of the picture is laughing heartily. All the figures are clearly outlined, and the whole group is true to life"--Edison films "war extra" catalog.
31444 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 20May1898; 31444.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, William Paley.
Duration: 0:27 at 26 fps.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1329) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Filmed ca. May 1898 in Tampa, Florida.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 427; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985, p. 223; Edison films "war extra" catalog, May 10, 1898, p. 32 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Compilation reels FEA 9087 (print) and FPB 9735 (neg) removed from this record. See MAVIS. qm22 2013-09-13