Near Stazyzow -- heavy going for Austrian guns – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Near Stazyzow -- heavy going for Austrian guns, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Near Stazyzow -- heavy going for Austrian guns
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A caption card on this glass negative credits the scene to a place called Stazyzow, where the title describes Austrian guns struggling through heavy ground, a pointed detail that suggests mud or churned terrain slowing the artillery. The record gives no date and the title is unverified, but the subject points toward the Eastern Front of the First World War, where Austro-Hungarian forces often had to haul heavy equipment over poor roads in wet seasons. The negative belongs to the Bain News Service, a New York agency that circulated news photographs to American newspapers, so the image reflects how wartime events were packaged for a home audience.
| 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 | 5,823 × 4,291 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19960 |
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