Schneider Coast Defense Train (observation car) – 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 Schneider Coast Defense Train (observation car), 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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Schneider Coast Defense Train (observation car)
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The title credits this glass negative to a Schneider coast defense train, a name that points to the French armaments firm Schneider et Cie, which built heavy artillery that could be mounted on rail carriages. Coast defense trains moved large guns along a shoreline and fired from positions that were hard to pin down, and an observation car would have held the officers who spotted targets and directed fire. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the New York news photo agency's archive from the early twentieth century, when railway artillery drew wide public interest. The record gives no date, and the title is the agency's own unverified label.
| 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 | 4,235 × 5,798 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16681 |
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