Hosp Corps, Camp MacArthur Waco, Texas, 1918 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Hosp Corps, Camp MacArthur Waco, Texas, 1918 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Officers, nurses, and hospital corps, Base Hospital, Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, June 4, 1918
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Hosp Corps, Camp MacArthur Waco, Texas, 1918
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Camp MacArthur sat on the edge of Waco, Texas, in 1918, when the United States was deep in the First World War. The army had built the cantonment in 1917 to train infantry draftees and National Guard units, and at its height it held tens of thousands of men in rows of wood-frame barracks and tents. Waco, a Brazos River city of cotton merchants, wholesale trade, and rail lines, took in soldiers, families, and extra business, while its civic leaders promoted the camp as a source of pride and payroll. This view shows the hospital corps, the medical men who treated trainees struck by influenza and pneumonia that fall, a sickness that would soon fill camp wards across the country.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | gildersleeve, fred a. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,217 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Officers, nurses, and hospital corps, Base Hospital, Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, June 4, 1918 |
| Reference | TX 1918 Hosp Corps, Camp MacArthur Waco |
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