Bethincourt (Somme) – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Bethincourt (Somme), 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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Bethincourt (Somme)
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The title places this view at Bethincourt in the Somme, but the record marks that name as unverified, so the location should be held loosely. Bethincourt was a village in France that suffered heavy damage during the First World War, and the Somme name recalls the 1916 campaign that devastated much of the surrounding countryside. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so when the picture was taken remains uncertain.
| 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 | 5,684 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27780 |
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