There's no name or date on this portrait, but because of the sepia style, I'm guessing it's from the World War 2 era. Anytime I see a war era, any war, photo of a soldier, I always wonder if they came back. And not just alive. Did they come back physically and emotionally whole?
It doesn't really read on the scan, but there's an embossed credit on the lower right corner. "Portraits by White, CAMP BLANDING, FLORIDA." Stamped on the back, "FROM WHITES PHOTO STUDIO MAIN P.X. CAMP BLANDING, FLA."
There's a fair amount about the history of Camp Blanding online. I'm not going into a great deal of detail, but an overview. Camp Blanding opened in 1939 as the main training center for the Florida National Guard. During World War 2, Camp Blanding was used for the training of nine different infantry divisions, as well as one parachute division. It was also a POW camp for captured German soldiers. For a while, there were so many soldiers stationed at Camp Blanding that it was the fourth-largest city in the state, with over 10,000 buildings and 125 miles of paved roads. I wasn't able to find anything about White's Photo Studio. My best guess is that he was a professional studio photographer in nearby Starke, Florida.
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