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Title: [George W. Lenz]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1917]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait. "1st Class Private Geo. W. Lenz, Company A, Eighth Engineers" -- handwritten on verso.
2012-1756.
George William Lenz was born in Crescent City in 1890. His father, Ben Lenz, was born in Germany; his mother, Dorothy Bray, in California. He worked in the oil fields in Kern County before enlisting in the 319th Engineers Co. during World War I. Upon his return, resumed working in the oil fields. Died in 1939.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001478104CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Lenz, George W., 1890-1939--Portraits
World War, 1914-1918--United States--Photographs
German Americans--California--Crescent City--Photographs
Soldiers
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: United States
California
Crescent City

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