MANCHURIA – Historic Reproduction
(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 MANCHURIA. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The only identifying detail recorded for this glass negative is the title MANCHURIA, taken from unverified Bain News Service data, so the scene itself remains uncertain. The name refers to a region of northeastern China that Russia and Japan contested in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905, and that Japan occupied in 1931. Bain News Service, a New York picture agency active into the early 1930s, supplied news photographs to newspapers, so the image likely reflects that wider interest in the region.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,853 × 3,315 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31235 |
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