Lille – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lille. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Lille, the textile and industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border, is the subject of this glass negative, one of the Bain News Service's many views of places rather than people or events. The record gives no date, but the Bain agency, a New York photo service active from the late 1890s into the early 1930s, supplied images like this to newspapers and magazines. Lille spent most of the First World War under German occupation, from 1914 to 1918, which gives the city particular significance in the period when the agency was most active. Because the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, the place name is the most dependable detail, and the date and exact view would need further research.
| 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 | 5,804 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25310 |
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