Rookies on MAINE – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Rookies on MAINE. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rookies on MAINE
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The title "Rookies on MAINE" points to a ship named *Maine*, most likely one of the U.S. Navy's battleships, though the record's title is unverified and the picture carries no date. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, shot a great deal of Navy and military material, and "rookies" in that setting usually means new recruits or first-year sailors learning the ship. Because the glass negative is small, the surviving print is best read as a documentary record of daily shipboard life rather than a studio portrait. Compare it with other Bain negatives of naval subjects to narrow down the ship and year.
| 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 | 4,903 × 3,290 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23720 |
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