National Guard Austin, Minnesota, 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 National Guard Austin, Minnesota, 1917 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Co. G, 2nd Inf., Minnesota Nat. Guards, Austin, Minn., Aug. 28th, 1917
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National Guard Austin, Minnesota, 1917
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Austin, Minnesota, in Mower County near the Iowa border, was a meatpacking town in 1917, and the George A. Hormel & Company plant there was among its largest employers. The Cedar River runs through the town, and its businesses and farms drew trade from the surrounding county. When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, local men joined the National Guard and drilled in the summer months, and a guard company posed for this panoramic photograph as the town watched its young men prepare for service overseas. Residents of that year would have known Austin as a packing center with a strong local identity, and the war soon pulled both its workers and its civic life into the national effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | palen, frank |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,059 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Co. G, 2nd Inf., Minnesota Nat. Guards, Austin, Minn., Aug. 28th, 1917 |
| Reference | MN National Guard Austin 1917 |
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