Birdseye View, Camp Shelby, 1917

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Description

This black and white image is a World War I panoramic photograph, perhaps one of the more important early photographs of Camp Shelby, dated soon after its creation in 1917. This impressive image is a “Birdseye View of Camp Shelby” taken in 1917 revealing the “9 camps” (all noted) that made up the large Camp Shelby at the time it was first occupied. The expansive image reveals thousands of stumps of felled pine trees from the recently cleared land, large water towers, hundreds of horses, many soldiers working on the grounds, and frame buildings and tents, with many of the structures under construction.

Publication Date

1917

Time Period

1910-1919

Subjects

Hattiesburg, MS; Military Training Camps--United States; Camp Shelby (MS) photographs

Geographic Location

Hattiesburg, (Miss.)

Format (original)

photograph: b&w: 60in by 10in

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_Oversize-Photograph-Camp Shelby_001-Final

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Division, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Oversized Photographs

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Recommended Citation

Birdseye View, Camp Shelby, 1917, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Archives and Special Collections Division, Mississippi State University