Daniels visits RECRUIT – Vintage 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 rare historic photograph captures Daniels visits RECRUIT in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Daniels visits RECRUIT
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Josephus Daniels, who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to 1921, is named in this picture's title, which pairs his visit with a recruit. The title comes from Bain News Service data that has not been independently verified, and the record gives no date, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Bain's agency supplied photographs of current events to newspapers during the 1910s and early 1920s, and a Navy secretary meeting a new sailor was the kind of public, newsworthy moment such pictures were made to capture. The Navy's wartime expansion and postwar reduction in those years provide useful context for reading the scene, and the caption and glass negative format are worth noting for anyone tracing the agency's work.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,853 × 3,277 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27563 |
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