Tripoli - Guns on PISA – 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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Tripoli - Guns on PISA
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The title points to guns mounted on the Italian cruiser *Pisa* at Tripoli, though the record notes that the caption came from unverified Bain News Service data and gives no date. If the attribution holds, the picture would date to the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912, when Italy seized the Ottoman province of Tripoli, now in Libya, and its navy bombarded the coast before troops landed. Bain's agency sold news photographs to newspapers across the United States, so images like this one reached American readers who followed the conflict. Naval guns of this kind were a major feature of early twentieth-century coastal warfare, and the picture offers a glimpse of that technology at close range.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,748 × 4,135 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11278 |
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