French Pick up dead near Charleroi – 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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French Pick up dead near Charleroi
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The caption places this scene near Charleroi, an industrial city on the Sambre River in southern Belgium, where French and British forces fought German troops in late August 1914, early in the First World War. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service supplied without independent verification, so the exact moment and the identity of the dead cannot be confirmed here. Bain's glass negatives from this period were made to carry wartime news to newspapers, and this one is a stark reminder of the human cost of the fighting in the region.
| 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 | 5,716 × 4,122 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18830 |
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