Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917 – 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 historic image of Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C.
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Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917
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Camp Sevier, shown here in 1917, was a wartime training cantonment on the outskirts of Greenville, South Carolina, a city built on textile mills and the cotton economy of the Piedmont. That spring the United States entered the First World War, and the Army chose the site to train the 30th Division, a National Guard formation drawn from units in the Carolinas and Tennessee. The camp brought thousands of soldiers, contractors and civilian workers into a town that had known mostly mill work and the rhythm of its railroad lines. Greenville residents watched the rows of new barracks rise and the drilling fields fill, and they came to see the camp as a sudden center of local life, shaping both the town's economy and its sense of its place in the war effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | peden, j. r. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,382 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C. |
| Reference | SC 1917 a Camp Sevier, Greenville |
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