Lafayette Day – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lafayette Day. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lafayette Day
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Lafayette Day honored the Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman who served under George Washington during the American Revolution and became one of the best-known foreign friends of the young United States. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, produced the glass negative, and the record gives no exact date for the scene. Observances of Lafayette's life grew during the World War I era, when American and French ties were closely publicized. The picture is worth a look for how such commemorations were staged and photographed at the time.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,890 × 3,352 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28663 |
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