Gen. Von Watter – 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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Gen. Von Watter 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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Gen. Von Watter
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The record gives this portrait the name of General von Watter, a German officer, though the Bain News Service title is unverified and the date is unknown. Von Watter is best remembered for commanding a naval brigade that the German government sent into the Ruhr region in spring 1920, where it helped suppress a workers' uprising that followed the failed Kapp Putsch. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan-based agency, distributed news pictures of such figures to American newspapers in the early twentieth century, so images like this one reflect how European military leaders were presented to the American public during that postwar period.
| 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 | 4,135 × 5,766 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31569 |
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