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Human Statue of Liberty!
« on: February 29, 2008, 07:06:30 PM »
This is INCREDIBLE ! The picture was taken in 1918. It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge in Iowa. A gift from our grandfathers...maybe our great-grandfathers...
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2008, 05:04:05 PM »
that's so amazing!
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2008, 05:35:56 PM »
really neat, and I bet back then it took a bit longer to determing where to place people then it would now.
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2008, 11:29:28 AM »
Oh, how awesome.

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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2008, 03:10:12 PM »
Awesome Happyoutsidegirl. Thanks for sharing with us! @O@

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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2008, 10:16:29 PM »
That's amazing!   @O@  I agree with Marla...it would have been much harder for them to do that in 1918 than it would today (with computers to map out the placement).   
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2008, 08:21:30 AM »
How neat.

I love to see patriotic pictures especially when they are that old.

Thanks for letting us see.
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2008, 09:56:46 AM »
That is actually just one photo in a series taken after WWI.
Go here to see more...http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi%2Dbin/query/p%3Fpp/app%2Cgrabill%2Clomax%2Cpan%2Cwtc%2Cils%2Cvv%2Cgottscho%2Cdetr%2Cbbcards%2Cprok%2Cnclc%2Cfsa:%40FILREJ%28%40FIELD%28CALL%2B%40od1%28LOT%25205357%29%29%2B%40FIELD%28COLLID%2Bcoll%29%29::SortBy=DOCID

Here is the backstory...
This image matches one in the U.S. National Archives credited to photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas, captioned as follows: "18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Commanding. Colonel Rush S. Wells, Directing." The picture was taken in July 1918.

"Human Statue of Liberty" was one of a series of group photographs taken by Mole and Thomas during and immediately after World War I at U.S. military training camps. Each took up to a week to compose and shoot using an 11" x 14" view camera perched atop an 80-foot tower. According to photography historian Louis Kaplan, these so-called "living sculptures" served as "rallying points to support American involvement in the war and to ward off isolationist tendencies."

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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2008, 12:25:41 PM »
That was interesting.

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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2008, 03:33:36 PM »
Thanks Tim for adding that. I guess I should have put the web site down with the  8-)~post
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Re: Human Statue of Liberty!
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2008, 05:01:46 PM »
A totally awesome picture considering when it was done. Every man in that picture has a story. I would love to hear them. What heroism was shown by our ancestors.
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