French Siege gun and motor tractor – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: French Siege gun and motor tractor, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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French Siege gun and motor tractor
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A French siege gun shown alongside a motor tractor sets this negative apart from the other artillery views on the board. Motor tractors let armies haul large guns faster and farther than horse teams could, and that shift toward mechanical traction was one of the notable changes in warfare during the First World War. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers, made the negative, but the record gives no date, so the exact moment it was taken remains unconfirmed.
| 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 | 5,829 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18267 |
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