Examination of "Recruit" – 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 historic photograph of Examination of "Recruit" brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Examination of "Recruit"
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This picture's title points to a medical or physical examination of a recruit, a routine step in enlisting for military service in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines, made and filed the glass negative, and its collection holds tens of thousands of such images. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption data the agency recorded that has not been independently verified. Viewers may want to compare the scene's uniforms, equipment and setting with dated Bain images to narrow down when it was taken.
| 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 | 3,278 × 4,884 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25032 |
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