Refugee camp, Beirut – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Refugee camp, Beirut in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Refugee camp, Beirut
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The caption places this glass negative in Beirut, but the record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified notes kept with the Bain News Service negatives. Bain was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its negatives later passed to the Library of Congress. Beirut saw many displaced people across that period, and camps there sheltered families fleeing war and upheaval, so the subject fits the era. The location and the camp should be read as the agency's label rather than as confirmed fact.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,066 × 3,640 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36842 |
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