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Arthur Jones and assistant Mole Thomas

The Human American eagle

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Arthur Jones and assistant Mole Thomas

The Human American eagle, 1918

Photography

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

In 1918, Mole & Thomas choreographed 12,500 officers, nurses, and soldiers at Camp Gordon, Georgia into this impossibly precise formation of an American eagle mid-spread. Patriotic performance art or early drone-less spectacle - it’s a flex either way. Send to someone who always pulls off the impossible with style (and maybe a little military discipline).

This image is currently held by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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