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Infantry parade and camp tents, panoramic photograph – Vintage Wall Art

Infantry parade and camp tents, panoramic photograph — historic photograph
Infantry parade and camp tents, panoramic photograph. Historic photograph from the Parades collection.

(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 Infantry parade and camp tents, panoramic photograph, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Infantry parade and camp tents, panoramic photograph

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Lined up in long, even ranks, the soldiers and their canvas camp tents fill nearly the whole width of this panoramic view, a format that let photographers of the period capture an entire regiment at once. Panoramic cameras of this kind swept across the scene on a rotating lens, so the result stretches wide and curves slightly at the edges. Parades like this one were a standard way for military units to show discipline and organization, and the tents behind the formation point to a unit living in the field rather than in barracks. The record does not name the regiment or the date, so the picture is best read as a window onto military life of its era.

Original scan2,509 × 706 px · prints to 8 × 2 in at 300 dpi
Reference1973_Parade_55_Inft_Iowa_Nat_1908.tif-6a30003u

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