Joffre in Tokyo – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures Joffre in Tokyo in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Joffre in Tokyo
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This glass negative from the Bain News Service shows Marshal Joseph Joffre, the French commander who led his nation's armies during the early years of the First World War, during a visit to Tokyo. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified agency notes, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Joffre's trip to Japan in 1917 sought Japanese naval and military cooperation after the United States entered the war, which makes this a useful visual record of Allied diplomacy in that period. Bain's agency, based in New York, sold news photographs to newspapers, so images like this one circulated widely in print at the time.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,819 × 6,391 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35328 |
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