Insurgents from Sparta - guarding the mountain pass, Grecian frontier – Antique 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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Insurgents from Sparta - guarding the mountain pass, Grecian frontier
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Labeled as insurgents guarding a mountain pass near Sparta, this stereo card belongs to the brief Greco-Turkish War of 1897, when Greek and Ottoman forces clashed mainly along the northern frontier. Sparta lies in the southern Peloponnese, far from most of that fighting, so the caption's pairing of place and action deserves some caution, since the record rests on old, unverified notes. Underwood & Underwood, a prolific stereoview publisher of the period, sold cards like this to a wide audience eager for images of distant events.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Undewrood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Soldiers--1897; Greco-; Boundaries; Greece--Sparta; Greco-Turkish War, 1897; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,426 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140302 |
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