Women at British Army Auxiliaries - Stretcher Bearers – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Women at British Army Auxiliaries - Stretcher Bearers in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Women at British Army Auxiliaries - Stretcher Bearers
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This glass negative shows women identified as stretcher bearers attached to British Army auxiliary services, a role that drew women into front-line support work during the First World War. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines, made and distributed images like this one, so it was likely produced for a press audience rather than as a personal study. The title comes from caption information the agency recorded, which has not been independently verified, and the record gives no date, so the exact occasion is uncertain. The picture is worth noticing for how it presents women in a physically demanding wartime job that was often overlooked in public accounts of the war.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12865 |
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