New Camp, Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1919 – Historic Photograph Print
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New Camp, Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1919 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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New Camp, Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1919
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Camp Dodge, outside Des Moines, was built in 1917 as one of the national army training cantonments of the First World War and was named for Grenville Dodge, the railroad builder and Civil War general who had lived in Council Bluffs. By 1919, after the armistice of November 1918, its work had shifted from training new draftees to discharging soldiers and sending them home. This view of the New Camp shows rows of wooden barracks laid out on former farmland, a sign of how quickly the army had built a town in a few months. Des Moines families had sent many of their young men through the camp, and the influenza epidemic of 1918 had struck crowded military posts hard, a memory many local residents still carried.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 956 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | IA New Camp, Camp Dodge, 1919 |
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