Gun Squad, Fort Slocum – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Gun Squad, Fort Slocum in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gun Squad, Fort Slocum
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Fort Slocum, on David's Island in Long Island Sound near New Rochelle, New York, was an Army post long before this glass negative was exposed, and the title "Gun Squad" points to the crew that served one of the post's artillery pieces. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work produced by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers and magazines with photographs from the early 1900s until the 1920s. Its date is not recorded, and the title rests on caption information that has not been independently verified. Even so, the picture offers a close look at the drill and routine of coastal artillery men of that era, when such crews handled heavy guns by hand.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,847 × 3,277 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26086 |
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