Boston Marines going on PRAIRIE – 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.)
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Step back in time with Boston Marines going on PRAIRIE, a historic photograph rich in period 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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Boston Marines going on PRAIRIE
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The title places Marines boarding the Navy ship Prairie at Boston, a scene of the kind that drew newspaper photographers to the city's harbor when troops and crews were being moved by sea. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the output of the Bain News Service, a commercial wire photo agency that supplied images to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption data the agency wrote on the negatives or cards, which was not always checked. Still, the glass negative format and the agency's news work point to the 1910s or 1920s, and the image shows how port cities served as staging points for military movements of that era.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10645 |
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