Verdun -- Palais De Justice – Antique 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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Step back in time with Verdun -- Palais De Justice, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Verdun -- Palais De Justice
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Few details in the record separate this view from others of the city, but the subject is the Palais de Justice, the courthouse in Verdun, a fortress town on the Meuse in northeastern France. Verdun became a symbol of endurance after the 1916 battle that flattened much of the surrounding countryside and heavily damaged the city itself. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold photographs to newspapers, produced many views of European towns in the years around the First World War, so this negative likely reflects that wider interest in places that had become known through the war. The record gives no date, so the exact moment the picture was taken remains uncertain.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27789 |
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