Krupp balloon gun – Vintage 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Krupp balloon gun, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Krupp balloon gun
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This glass negative is catalogued as a Krupp balloon gun, a German anti-aircraft piece of the kind used against observation balloons during the First World War. Krupp, the Essen firm that supplied much of the German army's heavy artillery, built such weapons to shoot down the tethered balloons that spotted artillery fire over the front lines. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that made and captioned the image, recorded the title from its own caption cards, which have not been independently checked. No date is given, so the exact moment the photograph was taken remains unknown.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9893 |
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