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Image of German prisoners at Hot Springs, N.C., circa 1917

Photograph of five German prisoners playfully fending off an attack by a fake alligator carved from a tree stump by another German prisoner along the French Broad River in Hot Springs, N.C., circa 1918.

Adolph Thierbach, Photographer
From North Carolina County War Records, WWI 2, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.