Knock Rummy

Title: Knock Rummy
Author: Alfred P. Maurice
Date: 12/25/1944
Type: Image; StillImage
Description: WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of five soldiers sitting on cots in an elevated platform tent playing a card game. The hammocks on the roof were used to keep supplies off the floor and away from the rats.
Verso: "25 December 44. The title of this explains the whole sketch very well. It is a scene picturing a knock rummy game in the tent next door."
Maurice.1681
Rights: In Copyright: 2017 -- Hamersly Library knows this item to be in copyright, which is held by Alfred P. Maurice. No permission is required from the rights-holder for educational uses.; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Identifier: 1002
Subject: Alfred P. Maurice; New Guinea; South Pacific; Tent Life/New Guinea; WWII
Spatial Coverage: Lae (Papua New Guinea)