Signal Corps mess – 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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Step back in time with Signal Corps mess, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Signal Corps mess
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A Signal Corps mess is the subject here, the dining setting where the Army's communications branch fed its enlisted men. The Signal Corps ran field and post messes as part of daily service life, so the view records a routine side of military work that rarely drew press attention. The negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures in the early twentieth century, and its glass plates capture the period's interest in ordinary military life. The record gives no date, so the scene is best read in general terms, as a glimpse of how soldiers were fed and organized in that era.
| 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 × 3,377 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25890 |
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