Camp Custer, Michigan, 1917 – Antique 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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Camp Custer, Michigan, 1917 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Camp Custer, 1917
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Camp Custer, Michigan, 1917
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Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1917 was a railroad and factory city when the federal government began building Camp Custer on farmland at its edge. The post, named for the Civil War cavalry leader George Armstrong Custer, was one of the large training cantonments the army set up that year, and its new streets gave the valley a sudden influx of young men. Local carpenters, teamsters, and lumber dealers found steady work supplying the construction, while farm families in the surrounding townships sold hay, dairy goods, and produce to the post. Troop trains passed through town often enough that their whistles became a familiar sound to residents who had seldom seen so many uniforms on their streets.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | spencer & wyckoff |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 898 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Camp Custer, 1917 |
| Reference | MI Camp Custer 5 1917 |
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