Xmas boxes for U.S. soldiers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Caption from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides... Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 31, 1918 from the Committee on Public Information: "At port of embarkation Army officers established a "Christmas box hospital" for the repair of Christmas boxed received in bad condition. This photograph shows a pile of such damaged boxes awaiting inspection and repair. About 11,000 packages arrived in bad condition. Christmas 1917." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain