Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: From the Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier
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Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918
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In 1918 Camp Sevier, an Army training post on the edge of Greenville, South Carolina, held draftees and National Guard units preparing for service in France. The camp took its name from John Sevier, the frontiersman and first governor of Tennessee, and it had been built quickly after the United States entered the war in 1917. Greenville was a textile town whose cotton mills and railroad connections gave it steady work, and local merchants relied on the soldiers' payroll. The Liberty theater pictured here offered enlisted men entertainment during their off-duty hours, but the influenza epidemic that autumn would soon close such gathering places across the state.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | peden, j. r. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 919 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | From the Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier |
| Reference | SC 1918 Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier |
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