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Re-Photography
World War I Project
In 1999 our family found over 1,400 negatives in a box. As we held them up to the light, we discovered they were taken by Colonel James C. Hughes, an American soldier, family man and great grand father of my husband. Col. Hughes served his whole career in the military, starting in the Kansas Militia chasing Pancho Villa, then on the front in WWI, and later in the Pacific Theatre during WWII where he was captured, forced on the Bataan Death March and survived a Japanese POW Camp before returning home to retire. The negatives span almost 20 years of the Colonel's life and include the time he spent on the front during WWI.
In the summer of 2000 and the winter of 2007 I traveled to Europe and re-photographed dozens of photographs the Colonel had taken while serving. Below are just two of them. These images, and others like them, will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Kansas State Historical Society titled Captured: The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes opening May 27th, 2016. To find out more, click here.
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St. Quentin, France 1919 & 2000 Besancon,
France 1919 & 2000 |
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