National Guard at Plattsburg, New York, 1917 – 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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Step back in time with National Guard at Plattsburg, New York, 1917, a historic image rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Battery C, 1st Reg't., N.Y. Field Artillery, National Guard; taken at training camp at Plattsburg [sic], N.Y., August 1917
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National Guard at Plattsburg, New York, 1917
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Plattsburgh, New York, sat on the western shore of Lake Champlain near the Canadian border in 1917, a small city whose economy rested on lumber, shipping on the lake and canal, and rail traffic. Its older identity came from the Battle of Plattsburgh in September 1814, when American forces defeated a British invasion on land and on the lake, and from the Plattsburgh Barracks, a regular army post that had long shaped local life. In 1917 the United States had just entered the First World War, and the town's training grounds filled with soldiers, so local residents saw the Guard companies drilling and marching through streets that had grown used to military routines. Townspeople who lived through that summer would have known Plattsburgh as a border garrison town with a proud military memory, now turned toward mobilization for Europe.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lyon, george f., bennett |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,640 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Battery C, 1st Reg't., N.Y. Field Artillery, National Guard; taken at training camp at Plattsburg [sic], N.Y., August 1917 |
| Reference | NY National Guard at Plattsburg 1917 |
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