113th Sqd Eng, Vancouver Bks, Washington, 1919 – Historic Photograph 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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113th Sqd Eng, Vancouver Bks, Washington, 1919 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: 113th Sqd. (Eng.), larest [sic] squadron in the world, Vancouver Bks., Wash., 1919
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113th Sqd Eng, Vancouver Bks, Washington, 1919
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Vancouver Barracks, on the Columbia River bluffs across from Portland, Oregon, had been an Army post since the 1840s, and in 1919 it was still a place where soldiers trained and were processed after the First World War. The Armistice of November 1918 had ended the fighting, so engineer units like this one were waiting on demobilization orders while the post settled back into peacetime routines. Across the river, Portland's economy rested on lumber, shipping, and grain moving down the Columbia and Willamette, and the Vancouver side shared those waterfront ties. Residents of the region in 1919 would have connected the post with the wartime draft and the homecoming of local men, along with the labor strikes and high prices that unsettled the Pacific Northwest that year.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | marcell, edward f. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,494 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 113th Sqd. (Eng.), larest [sic] squadron in the world, Vancouver Bks., Wash., 1919 |
| Reference | WA 1919 113th Sqd Eng, Vancouver Bks |
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