Soldiers' bags astray – 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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Soldiers' bags astray
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The title, "Soldiers' bags astray," points to a single, specific problem: a soldier's luggage that had gone to the wrong place. The record gives no date or location, and the title comes from caption cards that Bain News Service staff wrote, so it is not independently verified. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs in the early 1900s, and its glass negatives capture the everyday concerns of that period. Misrouted baggage was a familiar frustration during wartime and troop movements, so the subject fits the kind of routine, human-scale story the agency often sent out.
| 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 | 5,704 × 4,128 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30611 |
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