Tartar labourers – Vintage Print
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(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 Tartar labourers, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Roger Fenton made this salted paper print in the Crimea in 1855, when he turned his camera on the Tatar men hired to build and repair roads around Balaklava, the harbor the British army relied on during its siege of Sevastopol. The record ties the scene to the army's construction work and to the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, which places the labor squarely within the campaign's logistics. Fenton's Crimean photographs are often counted among the earliest pictures taken of an active war zone, and this one is a useful reminder that the army depended on local workers as well as on its own soldiers.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 19 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | with an essay on his life and work / Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. London : Secker & Warburg |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with horizontal line at top. DLC 120" written or printed above horizontal line. DLC Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Foot, 14th (Buckinghamshire)--Facilities--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Engineering & construction--Ukraine--Balaklava. Tatars--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Laborers--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Road construction--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Military exchanges--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,930 × 4,869 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222582 |
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