Asking for the missing in Ger. – Historic 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
This rare historic photograph captures Asking for the missing in Ger. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Asking for the missing in Ger.
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The title on this glass negative, "Asking for the missing in Ger.," points to Germany and to people seeking word of relatives who had disappeared. Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, supplied pictures from many places, and its captions were written by staff rather than checked against the event, so the title is best read as the agency's description. The subject fits the years during and after the First World War, when families crowded into relief offices and tracing services to learn whether sons, husbands and brothers were alive, held as prisoners, or dead.
| 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 | 5,603 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27816 |
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