While serving in the Kansas National Guard James Clark Hughes also worked at the Topeka Telephone Company between 1907 and 1917. Here Hughes (left) poses with three friends labeled as Nels, Shirley, and Baker outside the Topeka Telephone Company building in 1917.
Hughes is among a select number of soldiers who served in a major military expedition and two world wars. As a photographer he documented his time at the Mexican border in 1916 and in Europe in 1919 taking more than 600 images. As a Japanese prisoner of war in World War II, Hughes kept a daily diary and, upon liberation, brought home items from his imprisonment. He and his family donated most of these items to the Kansas Museum of History.
More information at: https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/james-clark-hughes/19881