Battery, Tchataldja No. 11 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Battery, Tchataldja No. 11 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Battery, Tchataldja No. 11
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Few places in the Balkan Wars drew more newspaper attention than the Çatalca lines, which the record spells Tchataldja, a band of fortifications west of Constantinople. This picture shows a numbered artillery battery within that defensive system, the kind of emplacement the Ottoman army built to hold back the Bulgarian advance in late 1912. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs, distributed images like this to newspapers during the conflict. The record gives no date, so the exact moment is uncertain, but the subject ties the picture to the fighting of that winter.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12691 |
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