King Geo. Mounting Butte De Warlancourt – Antique 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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A window into the past: King Geo. Mounting Butte De Warlancourt, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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King Geo. Mounting Butte De Warlancourt
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A caption on this glass negative places King George on the Butte de Warlancourt, a low rise of ground near Bapaume in northern France that changed hands repeatedly during the fighting of 1916 and 1917. King George V visited British troops on the Western Front several times during the First World War, and the Bain News Service, a New York news photo agency, distributed images of such wartime moments. The record gives no date, and the title is unverified, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,104 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26389 |
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