Ch. in Neidenburg destroyed by Russians – 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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Ch. in Neidenburg destroyed by Russians comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ch. in Neidenburg destroyed by Russians
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A church in the East Prussian town of Neidenburg, now Nidzica in Poland, is the subject, and the caption credits its ruin to Russian troops. The town lay near the battlefields of Tannenberg, where Russian and German armies clashed in late August 1914, and it changed hands during the first weeks of the war. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs, supplied this title, but the record marks it as unverified, so the cause of the damage is best read as the caption's claim rather than settled fact. The picture still shows how wartime photographs of the Eastern Front presented destruction in East Prussia as the work of the enemy.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,210 × 5,822 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19541 |
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