Recruiting Parade – 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.)
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A window into the past: Recruiting Parade, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Recruiting Parade
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The title *Recruiting Parade* suggests a procession meant to draw volunteers into the armed forces, a public spectacle common in American cities in the early twentieth century. The negative is a glass plate from the Bain News Service, the news photo agency George Grantham Bain founded in New York to supply images of current events to newspapers. The record gives no date or location, so the specific occasion is unknown, but the collection as a whole spans roughly 1900 to the 1920s, a period when recruiting marches accompanied both wartime mobilization and peacetime military drives. Glass plates like this one often hold more detail than the printed reproductions of the day.
| 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 | 4,877 × 3,296 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26016 |
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