Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois, 1917 – Vintage 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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Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Great Lakes Naval Training Station
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Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois, 1917
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In 1917, the Great Lakes Naval Training Station occupied a stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline in northern Illinois, near the town of Waukegan and a short distance north of Chicago. The Navy had established the base only a few years earlier, and after the United States entered the First World War that April, it expanded quickly to receive and train large numbers of enlisted recruits. New barracks, drill fields, and classrooms went up to handle the steady stream of young men arriving from across the Midwest and beyond. For residents of Lake County and the Chicago area, the station had become a major part of wartime life, bringing new people, payrolls, and military activity to a region that had long depended on lake commerce and manufacturing.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mayhart studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 667 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Great Lakes Naval Training Station |
| Reference | IL Great Lakes Naval Training Station 1917 |
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