French Cartoon of Reims Cathedral – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures French Cartoon of Reims Cathedral in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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French Cartoon of Reims Cathedral
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Reims Cathedral, where many French kings were crowned, is the subject here, though the record describes the image as a cartoon rather than a photograph of the building. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied pictures to newspapers from the early 1900s, filed it under a title it could not fully verify. The cathedral drew wide attention during the First World War, when shelling damaged its roof and interior and its fate was followed closely in the Allied press. Illustrated images of the building from those years often carried political or patriotic messages, which makes this drawing worth reading closely.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,247 × 5,835 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19046 |
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