Detroit drilled by Serg. Thorne – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Detroit drilled by Serg. Thorne. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Detroit drilled by Serg. Thorne
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A sergeant named Thorne drilling a group in Detroit is the subject of this glass negative, though the record does not say whether the men were soldiers, police, or a citizens' unit. The Bain News Service, run by George Grantham Bain in New York, supplied newspapers with photographs of current events from about 1900 into the 1920s, and its glass negatives now form a large part of the Library of Congress holdings. Because no date is recorded, the exact occasion is uncertain. The format itself is worth noticing, since the wet-plate and dry-plate glass negatives of this period recorded fine detail in ways that paper prints of the time could not.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,734 × 4,134 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25780 |
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