American military couriers beginning their journeys from the American Embassy in Paris, France during World War One. One of the soldiers in the photograph is identified as Sgt. Ray Gallivan. The photograph was taken on April 15, 1919 by an unidentified photographer and is numbered 1864-99 in the archives.

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