Figure 1.-- The photograpghs of the visiting American group are undated, but we know that they were taken during or after 1913 because some of the boys are carrying the 48-star American flag. The photograph could have been taken during the 1910s, but the early 20s is possible. It seems likely that the photograph was taken in 1915 because of the flags we see here.

The photograpghs of the visiting American group are undated, but we know that they were taken during or after 1913 because some of the boys are carrying the 48-star American flag. The photograph could have been taken during the 1910s, but the early 20s is possible. One of the images show the boys with a flag that seems to show the date "1913" (figure 1). It also seems to read "World's Fair". That might suggest that the boy are coming to Paris for the World's Fair. The only problem here is that there was no World's Fair in Paris during 1913. Also we seem to read "Franciso" onthe flag. And there was a a World's Fair in San Francisco during 1915 so what looks like 1913 is probably 1915. That does not netecarily mean that the photograph was taken in 1915. Perhaps they were just proclaiming that they visited the World's Fair. But the most likely interpretation, I think. is that the boys were from San Francisco and advertising the World's Fair. This the photograph was probably taken in 1915 during World War I. Given that the boys are camping and they probably would not have gone during the school year, one might guess that it is July or August. The way the French are dressed, however it does not look like summer. We even see French boys in their school smocks. Another possibility is that the group here was in Paris because they attended the 1920 Jamboree in Paris. In fact one of the La Journal ohotograph is dated 1920, although we are not sure it is connected to the other photographs. The fact that this photograph is dated and the immense notriety of the German U-boat sinking leads us to conclude that all of the images here were taken in 1920 and the boys part of the american Scout delegation to the Jaboree in London. I think that American mothers at the time would have been agast at the idea of sending their sons into U-boat infested waters, wether or not the Germans had suspended unrestricted sunmarine warfare.