- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Camp Gordon
- Date of Original:
- 1917
- Subject:
- Military facilities--Georgia
Military personnel--United States
Military training--Georgia
Military uniforms--1910-1920--United States
Fences--Georgia
World War, 1914-1918
Camp Gordon (DeKalb Co., Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of unidentified men working on a fence at Camp Gordon in Chamblee, Georgia.
Camp Gordon was a training camp for the U.S. Army during World War I. The camp opened in 1917 and was located in Chamblee, Georgia, a few miles north of Atlanta. Camp Gordon was the training ground of the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Forces. The site was home to the Naval Air Station in World War II, and later, DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.
This work is filed as an image collected by Kenneth Rogers, the photographer is unknown. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.551.04
ahc082551004a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/1962
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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