Marines - League Isl. – 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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This glass negative is one of the Bain News Service pictures and is titled simply "Marines - League Isl.," pointing to League Island in South Philadelphia, where the Navy established a yard in the late 1860s and where Marines were stationed for decades. The record gives no date and notes that the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion and the men pictured remain unidentified. Bain's agency sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so the image likely reflects the everyday life and routines of a military base of that era.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12570 |
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