Hospital 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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This historic image of Hospital Camp Custer, Michigan, 1917 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Mich.
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Hospital Camp Custer, Michigan, 1917
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Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1917 was a city of cereal plants, carriage and wagon works, and busy rail lines, and that year the federal government chose farmland just outside town for a new Army training cantonment. Named for George Armstrong Custer, Camp Custer went up in the months after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, and this view of its hospital grounds shows one of the medical areas meant to care for new recruits and draftees. Local residents watched rows of barracks rise quickly, and the construction work brought wages and traffic to a town that had long depended on its factories. Within a year, the camp's wards would be strained by the influenza epidemic of 1918, which struck military posts across the country.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mock, t. f. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,207 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Mich. |
| Reference | MI Hospital Camp Custer 1917 |
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