The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 Officers And Men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig – Historic Print
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This rare historic photograph captures The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 Officers And Men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Human U.S. Shield; 30,000 Officers And Men, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich; Brig
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Thirty thousand men from Camp Custer near Battle Creek, Michigan, were arranged into a United States shield, a feat that only a photograph taken from above could capture. The massed formation was staged under the direction of the camp's commander, Gen. Howard L. Lauback, and the picture was produced as a photoprint by Mole & Thomas. Camp Custer was one of the large training cantonments built in 1917 to prepare American troops for service in World War I. Patriotic mass displays like this one were a common way to show the scale of the country's wartime mobilization on the home front.
| Created / published | c. 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photograph |
| Notes | Gen. Howard L. Lauback, commanding. Photoprint by Mole & Thomas |
| Original scan | 2,750 × 3,377 px · prints to 9 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150080 |
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