Wilson landing from GEO.WASH. – 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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A window into the past: Wilson landing from GEO.WASH., 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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Wilson landing from GEO.WASH.
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The caption on this glass negative points to Woodrow Wilson coming ashore from the liner *George Washington*, the Navy transport that carried him to France for the Paris Peace Conference in December 1918. Because the record gives no date and the title is unverified, the scene is best understood through that voyage, which made Wilson the first sitting American president to travel to Europe. Bain News Service, the photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, sold pictures of such arrivals to newspapers, and its glass negatives preserve the details of dockside events of the period.
| 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 | 5,722 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29580 |
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