Name/Title
Photographs: Camp Grant, Rockford, IllinoisEntry/Object ID
A0239.5.07Scope and Content
Original black and white photographs of Camp Grant, United States Army post located in Rockford, Illinois includes images of the several officers, army personnel and various activities, headquarters, barracks, Liberty Theatre and surrounding landscape.
Note: Camp Grant was a United States Army facility located in Rockford, Illinois and named in honor of General Ulysses S. Grant. Camp Grant was established in 1917 to train draftees to serve in World War I, the location became an Illinois National Guard Post in 1924, was used as a Civilian Conservation Corps facility from 1933 through 1935 and finally reactivated as a United States Army base in 1940 to train Army medical corpsmen for World War II.Collection
Walker Perry Rodman CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1900 - 1966