Marines in Fr. – Historic Reproduction
(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: Marines in Fr., 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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Marines in Fr.
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The title reads "Marines in Fr.," which most likely means Marines in France, though the record marks it as unverified and gives no date, so the exact scene is uncertain. The setting fits the American Expeditionary Forces of the First World War, when Marine units fought in France, most famously at Belleau Wood and Château-Thierry in the summer of 1918. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo service that sold pictures to newspapers and magazines, so it was probably meant for quick publication rather than as a fine-art study.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26041 |
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