Barricade at Porte Maillot, Paris – Antique Print
(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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Barricade at Porte Maillot, Paris comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Barricade at Porte Maillot, Paris
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The Porte Maillot is one of the great gateways on the western edge of Paris, where the broad avenues running out from the city center meet the approaches to the Bois de Boulogne. This glass negative shows a barricade across that busy junction, a reminder that Paris streets were often turned into defensive lines during periods of unrest. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news pictures, made the negative, but its records give no date, and the title comes from caption data that has not been verified. The specific occasion therefore remains uncertain, and the scene is best read as typical of the street fortifications Paris saw in several turbulent periods.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18620 |
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