Milit. Hosp. car, C.P.R.Y. – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Milit. Hosp. car, C.P.R.Y. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Milit. Hosp. car, C.P.R.Y.
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A railway car fitted out as a military hospital is the subject here, with the initials "C.P.R.Y." in the title suggesting a Canadian Pacific rail connection, though the record does not confirm the location or date. Such hospital cars were used during the First World War to move wounded soldiers from the front and from port cities to hospitals inland, and the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, circulated images like this to newspapers. The glass negative format and the agency's caption cards date the work to the early twentieth century, when news photographs were carried by rail and wire to readers across the country.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25485 |
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