Albert -- Head of Virgin in Notre Dame de Brebieres Church – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Albert -- Head of Virgin in Notre Dame de Brebieres Church. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Albert -- Head of Virgin in Notre Dame de Brebieres Church
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The head of the Virgin shown here comes from the Notre-Dame de Brebières church in Albert, a town in the Somme region of northern France. The gilded statue of the Virgin and Child crowned the basilica's tower, and shelling during the First World War left it bent over the town, a broken landmark that soldiers and visitors came to recognize. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, collected images of news-making places like this, and the negative likely records the statue's damaged state. The record is undated, and its title rests on unverified caption data, so the exact moment of exposure is uncertain.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,348 × 5,954 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27769 |
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