The collection contains photographs that document training of medical corp troops at Forts Oglethorpe and Sheridan during United States participation in World War I. Most of the images are in three albums and depict training, camp life, hospital facilities and leave-time visits to locations in Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Georgia. These leave-time views include the Jefferson Davis home, Civil War battlefields and monuments, and living conditions for southern blacks. (Some of the captions reflect the racist tenor of white society at the time.)

The military images depict training, facilities, personnel and equipment. Also details the troops leaving from New York harbor. The views from the Western Theater details bunkers, the front lines, injured soldiers, hospitals and their staffs.