Tripoli - Mt. battery – Historic Print
(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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Tripoli - Mt. battery comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Tripoli - Mt. battery
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A glass negative titled "Tripoli - Mt. battery" stands out for naming a particular place, Tripoli, together with a military unit, a mountain battery. The record gives no date, and the title comes from Bain News Service captions that the Library of Congress has not verified, so the exact location and unit remain uncertain. The Bain News Service, founded in New York around 1899, supplied newspapers and magazines with news photographs, and its negatives from the early twentieth century often documented wartime and foreign events. Viewers interested in this picture may find it useful to compare the caption with other Bain prints of the same place.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,154 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11277 |
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