Vera Cruz -- tug of war -- Navy Vs. Marine Corps – Vintage 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.)
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A window into the past: Vera Cruz -- tug of war -- Navy Vs. Marine Corps, 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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Vera Cruz -- tug of war -- Navy Vs. Marine Corps
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A tug-of-war match between Navy sailors and Marines is the subject here, with the caption placing it at Vera Cruz, the Mexican port American forces occupied in April 1914. The record gives no date, and the location comes from unverified Bain News Service notes, so treat it as provisional. Bain's New York agency supplied newspapers with news and feature photographs, and this glass negative shows the friendly rivalry between service branches that such contests often displayed.
| 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 | 5,404 × 3,817 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18180 |
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