Geo. H. Schumacher, Major Q.M. Corps. Notes Covering Visit to 4th Corps Area Posts April 4, to May 1, 1937 [cover title]

[N.p., 1937. Very good.. [3],53pp., rectos only, including fifty-nine vernacular sepia-toned photographs measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches and a few maps and manuscript diagrams. Typed self wrappers, brad-bound. Minor creasing and dust-soiling to wrappers. Clean internally. A profusely illustrated report, with a few hand-drawn diagrams and numerous manuscript emendations, focused on various U.S. Army installations in the American Southeast. The author, Major George H. Schumacher of the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps, visited several Army bases and other posts in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia in the Spring of 1937. His report includes inspection details, notes on personnel, recommended repairs, and other information for each site he visited on his 3,065-mile tour, beginning with Fort Barrancas and Key West in Florida to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina, to Fort Bragg and Raleigh Cemetery in North Carolina, Fort McClellan in Alabama, and ending with a couple of bases in Georgia. The text of the report is supplemented with almost sixty annotated photographs which are interspersed throughout. A sampling of the photographs includes the Bachelor Quarters in Key West, the CCC Camp at Fort Taylor, the St. Augustine Cemetery, a WPA road under construction at Fort Moultrie, various buildings at Fort Bragg and the Raleigh Cemetery, a road and bridge at Fort McClellan, and various features at Georgia forts Screven and Oglethorpe. A unique production, and an informative assessment of 1930s Army installation in the American South and Southeast.