In the Aisne – Antique 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of In the Aisne. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In the Aisne
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The title points to the Aisne, a river in northeastern France that became a fixed name in the news during the First World War. Fighting there in 1914 and again in 1917 left a lasting mark on the landscape, and newspapers at home relied on photographs like this to show readers a place they would never see. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that distributed news photographs to American papers, produced many images of this kind. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact scene is uncertain. The glass negative format, though, preserves fine tonal detail that later prints often lose.
| 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 | 5,734 × 4,122 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27792 |
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