Field kitchen / Tommies resting – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Field kitchen / Tommies resting in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Field kitchen / Tommies resting
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The title points to British soldiers, the "Tommies" of the First World War, resting beside a field kitchen, a mobile cooking unit that fed troops close to the front. The record gives no date and calls the title unverified, so the exact setting and year remain uncertain. The image belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs in the early twentieth century. Its glass negatives offer a glimpse of how wartime press photography portrayed everyday life away from the fighting.
| 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 | 5,753 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26070 |
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