French in Dortmund – 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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A window into the past: French in Dortmund, 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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French in Dortmund
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The title places French troops in Dortmund, an industrial city in western Germany, but the record gives no date, and the title is unverified, taken from data the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives or caption cards. If it is accurate, the likeliest context is the Ruhr occupation that began in January 1923, when French and Belgian forces moved into the region after Germany fell behind on reparations payments. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that distributed news photographs, so this view may have circulated as a wire photo of occupation-era life. Treat the place and date as a starting point rather than settled fact.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,091 × 3,684 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36920 |
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