Tripoli - artillery outpost in desert – Historic 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.)
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A window into the past: Tripoli - artillery outpost in desert, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tripoli - artillery outpost in desert
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The title places this glass negative at an artillery outpost in the desert near Tripoli, though that label comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the location is best treated as a working attribution. If the setting is Tripoli in North Africa, the likeliest context is the Italian campaign to take the region in 1911 and 1912, when Italian forces fought Ottoman troops and local resistance across the desert. The Bain agency sold photographs of such events to newspapers, so images like this one reached readers quickly. The undated plate still offers a plain record of how field guns were set up on open, arid ground.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11267 |
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