The Snapshots in Time Collection
Elevated View of Tent Encampment with Civilian Visitors, Camp Grayling, Michigan, c. 1915
This panoramic view captures the sprawling tent encampment at Camp Grayling, Michigan, around 1915, where Michigan National Guard units gathered each summer for field training. Rows of canvas wall tents stretch toward the horizon while civilian visitors, dressed in the fashion of the era, tour the grounds -- a reminder of the strong community ties between citizen-soldiers and the public in the years just before American entry into World War I. Project: 218563