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[Viking helmet - front view] – Historic Print

[Viking helmet - front view], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Viking helmet - front view], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 [Viking helmet - front view] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Viking helmet - front view]

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This print shows a helmet photographed from the front, and the caption card lists it under antiquities, Vikings, and helmets. The record gives no date or maker, so the exact context is unknown. Viking Age helmets were rarely preserved, and the best-known surviving example, the Gjermundbu helmet from Norway, was found in 1943 and is a rounded iron design with no horns. The horned helmet that many people picture came mostly from 19th-century painting, illustration, and stage costume, so a photograph of a helmet like this one is worth reading with that background in mind.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Antiquities; Vikings; Helmets.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145160

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