SW from Stockade Tower Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918 – 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 rare historic image captures SW from Stockade Tower Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: South-west from Stockade Tower, no. 1, Camp Sevier, S.C.
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SW from Stockade Tower Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918
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Camp Sevier, on the edge of Greenville, South Carolina, was built in 1917 to train National Guard units from the Carolinas and Tennessee, and in 1918 it housed the 30th Division preparing for service in France. Greenville was a textile town, with cotton mills and railroad lines that tied the upstate to larger markets and shaped daily work and wages. This southwest view from a stockade guard tower shows the camp's barracks laid out in orderly rows, a reminder of how quickly the army had transformed farmland into a city of soldiers. That autumn, influenza spread through crowded military camps, and Greenville families lived with both the anxiety of the epidemic and the news of young men who had trained there.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | peden, j. r. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,511 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | South-west from Stockade Tower, no. 1, Camp Sevier, S.C. |
| Reference | SC 1918 SW from Stockade Tower Camp Sevier |
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