Wm. Robinson, Royal Scots Grays in Canadian Hosp., Le Touquet -- (Private Wm. Robinson) – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Wm. Robinson, Royal Scots Grays in Canadian Hosp., Le Touquet -- (Private Wm. Robinson), a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wm. Robinson, Royal Scots Grays in Canadian Hosp., Le Touquet -- (Private Wm. Robinson)
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The caption identifies its subject as Private Wm. Robinson of the Royal Scots Greys, a British cavalry regiment, photographed at a Canadian hospital in Le Touquet on the Channel coast of France. Le Touquet, near Étaples, received large numbers of wounded from the Western Front during the First World War, and its hospitals treated Commonwealth troops, so the setting fits that period. The negative came from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, but the title is unverified and no date is recorded, so the sitter's circumstances and the occasion remain uncertain. Cavalry units like the Greys fought largely on foot in the trench war, which makes a trooper of this regiment in a base hospital worth a closer look.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19690 |
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