Binghamton Nat Guard, New York, 1917 – 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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Binghamton Nat Guard, New York, 1917 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: First Ambulance Co., N.Y. National Guard about to leave Binghamton for training camp at Spartanburg, S.C., August 1917
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Binghamton Nat Guard, New York, 1917
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Binghamton, New York, sat where the Chenango River meets the Susquehanna, and in 1917 it was a manufacturing city of factories, rail lines, and shoe and cigar workshops. Its population had grown steadily in the decades before, and its residents were proud enough of their town to call it the "Parlor City," a nickname tied to its furniture and parlor-stove trade. That spring, the United States entered the First World War, and local men who had joined the state militia were soon called into federal service. The Guard companies from Binghamton drilled through the summer and fall before leaving for training camps, and this photograph captures the local unit at a moment when war had turned a hometown militia into a departure point for France.
| 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 × 1,423 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | First Ambulance Co., N.Y. National Guard about to leave Binghamton for training camp at Spartanburg, S.C., August 1917 |
| Reference | NY 1917 Binghamton Nat Guard |
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