Montgomery, Alabama, 1918 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Montgomery, Alabama, 1918, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Montgomery Ala., Capital grounds, flag dedication, April 11, 1918]
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Montgomery, Alabama, 1918
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Montgomery in 1918 was still the state capital, but its days were shaped by the nation's war effort. An Army training camp had been set up on the edge of town in 1917, and young men from across the South drilled there while local families followed the newspapers for word from France. That fall, the influenza pandemic swept through the country and forced public gatherings to be curtailed, and the city's attention swung between the sickness and the Armistice that ended fighting in November. Merchants, wholesalers and rail workers still kept the riverfront and depots moving, though troop trains and wartime shortages gave the year a different character from the cotton-and-commerce years before it.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | richards film service |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alabama |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,641 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Montgomery Ala., Capital grounds, flag dedication, April 11, 1918] |
| Reference | AL Montgomery 1918 |
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