1st Battery, in carts and on horse-back, starting for war game, New York – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures 1st Battery, in carts and on horse-back, starting for war game, New York in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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1st Battery, in carts and on horse-back, starting for war game, New York
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A battery of artillery sets out for a mock battle in this 1909 view, with some men riding in carts and others mounted on horseback, a mix of transport typical of field units of the period. The image is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a commercial agency whose photographers supplied New York news pictures to newspapers. The title was written on the negative or caption card and has not been independently verified. Military exercises of this kind drew press attention in the years before motor trucks began replacing horse-drawn transport, which makes the scene a useful record of that transition.
| Created / published | 8/13/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 942 × 711 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5369 |
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