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Frontier Camp Meetings Collection
Description: Photographic copy of a lithograph depicting a pioneer or frontier camp meeting, which appears to be a revival. The crowd responds with religious fervor as a speaker gestures from an elevated platform. In the distance, tents, people and horses can be seen. Camp meetings (usually evangelistic) were held in a large tent or outdoors and often lasted several days. They were a typically American expression of religious sentiment that began to be held during the early 19th century as Americans moved westward. Many people who could not regularly attend church were able to attend these meetings; on the frontier, camp meetings were important social as well as religious events. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC139_01
Subjects: Religious services; Rural life; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood;
Places: Ohio