Paris -- shop now a hospital – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Paris -- shop now a hospital in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Paris shop that had been turned into a hospital is the subject of this glass negative, one of many images the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, circulated in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact building and year remain unknown. Still, the picture fits a familiar pattern: during the First World War, French authorities requisitioned schools, hotels, and commercial premises for wounded soldiers, often fitting ordinary storefronts with cots and medical supplies. Pictures like this one show how quickly civilian spaces could change purpose in wartime.
| 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 | 4,247 × 5,760 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18710 |
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