British Armored autos in Fr. – Antique 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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of British Armored autos in Fr.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
British Armored autos in Fr.
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Captioned as British armored autos in France, this glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact moment is uncertain, but the subject suggests the First World War, when British armored car units operated on the Western Front. Those vehicles, often built on commercial or Rolls-Royce chassis and armed with machine guns, were used for reconnaissance and for patrolling roads behind the lines. The title comes from agency data that has not been verified, so it is best read as the label the agency gave the image.
| 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 | 5,710 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18640 |
More from the Bain News Service collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
