Memorial Reunion Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1917 – 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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This rare historic image captures Memorial Reunion Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1917 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 16-19, 1917, Mess "B"
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Memorial Reunion Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1917
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1917 was a river city of roughly 20,000 people, living off cotton, timber, and freight moving along the Mississippi and the Illinois Central lines. The city's identity still rested on the siege of 1863, when Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant held the town for 47 days before its surrender on July 4, and the battlefield had been set aside as a national military park in 1899. Veterans of both armies came back to the bluffs over the years, and their gatherings drew local crowds and civic leaders who saw the reunions as a way to honor the dead and to show that the sectional wounds had closed. That spring the United States had also entered the First World War, so the old war's memorial gatherings took place alongside talk of new enlistments and the draft.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | unglaub, joseph bernard |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Mississippi |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,098 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 16-19, 1917, Mess "B" |
| Reference | MS Memorial Reunion Vicksburg 1917 |
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