The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 officers and men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig. Gen. Howard L. Lauback, commanding – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 officers and men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig. Gen. Howard L. Lauback, commanding. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 officers and men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig. Gen. Howard L. Lauback, commanding
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Thousands of soldiers stand in a massed formation at Camp Custer near Battle Creek, Michigan, arranged to form a large shield bearing the words "The Human U.S. Shield." The caption credits Brig. Gen. Howard L. Lauback as commander and gives a strength of 30,000 officers and men, though that figure comes from an unverified caption card. Camp Custer was built in 1917 as a National Army training cantonment for the First World War, and arranging troops into patriotic symbols was a common way to show the scale of wartime mobilization on film.
| Created / published | c1918. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Mole & Thomas. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,251 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150080 |
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