- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of carrier pigeons, Sumter County, Georgia, 1918]
- Date of Original:
- 1918
- Subject:
- Airports--Georgia
Municipal services--Georgia--Sumter County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, 32.03997, -84.19704
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sumter County, 1918. Carrier pigeons and a pigeon house at Souther Field. Pigeons were used to transmit messages before the development of sophisticated communications systems. Souther Field was a military aviation training camp four miles northeast of Americus.
2003/07/16: Souther Field Airport is now known as Southerfield Airport. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_sum041
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:sum041
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
