Bulgaria - Bivouac on frontier – 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: Bulgaria - Bivouac on frontier, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bulgaria - Bivouac on frontier
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This glass negative shows a bivouac on what the caption identifies as a Bulgarian frontier, a setting that places it among the European news images the Bain News Service distributed in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that the Library of Congress lists as unverified, so the exact location and occasion remain uncertain. Bain's agency, based in New York, sold pictures of current events to newspapers, and its negatives often preserve the look of field camps and military life in the years around the Balkan conflicts. Viewers should treat the caption as a starting point and check the catalog entry for any later corrections.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12597 |
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