Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Camp Sevier, Greenville
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Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, 1917
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Greenville, South Carolina, in 1917 was a Piedmont town of mills, churches and a compact downtown along the Reedy River, and that year the army laid out Camp Sevier on its edge. The camp took its name from John Sevier, the frontiersman and first governor of Tennessee. Local merchants and farmers suddenly had to supply lumber, feed, bread and milk for a large body of men arriving all at once. Residents remembered the spring and summer of 1917 as a time when the war brought uniforms, rumors and new routines into ordinary streets. After the armistice the camp was emptied, and the town was left to sort out what the wartime boom had built and what it had cost.
| 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 × 1,636 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Camp Sevier, Greenville |
| Reference | SC 1917 Camp Sevier, Greenville |
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