Horsemanship Camp Lewis Tacoma, Washington, 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 Horsemanship Camp Lewis Tacoma, Washington, 1918. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Military horsemanship show, Remount Station, Camp Lewis, staged in stadium, Tacoma, Wash., July 4, 1918
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Horsemanship Camp Lewis Tacoma, Washington, 1918
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Camp Lewis, on the prairie south of Tacoma, Washington, was in 1918 one of the largest army cantonments in the country, built in 1917 as a training ground for draftees entering the First World War. Tens of thousands of men passed through its barracks and drill fields that year, and the camp pumped money, labor demand and wartime traffic into a city whose mills and port were already busy with lumber and shipping. Mounted training remained part of army instruction even as tanks and motor transport gained ground, so horsemanship drills and riding exercises were a visible feature of daily life on the post. Local residents knew the camp as a constant presence on the southern edge of the city, and the influenza epidemic that autumn would soon test the crowded cantonment and the town around it.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | boland, m. d. (marvin dement) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,023 px · prints to 18 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Military horsemanship show, Remount Station, Camp Lewis, staged in stadium, Tacoma, Wash., July 4, 1918 |
| Reference | WA 1918 Horsemanship Camp Lewis Tacoma |
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