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[Viking helmet - side view] – Antique Wall Art

[Viking helmet - side view], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Viking helmet - side view], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Viking helmet - side view], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Lead with the object itself: a side view of a helmet, catalogued under the Vikings and antiquities, that shows the profile of its cap and cheek guard. The record gives no date or maker, so its exact age is unknown. Surviving Viking-Age helmets are very rare, and most are fragments, which makes a photograph of one a useful record of how such pieces were studied and shown. Many popular images of Viking helmets with horns come from the 19th century, not from the Viking Age itself, so the plainer shape in a picture like this is worth noticing.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Antiquities; Vikings; Helmets.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145162

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