House burned by Gers., Choisy Au Bac – 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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House burned by Gers., Choisy Au Bac
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The ruined house pictured here stands in Choisy-au-Bac, a village in northern France on the Aisne front, which changed hands several times during the First World War. The caption, recorded by the Bain News Service on its negative, attributes the destruction to German troops, though the record gives no verified date. Bain's agency in New York sold news photographs of the European war to American newspapers, so images like this one reached readers with little other view of the damage. The glass negative preserves fine detail in the broken masonry and empty window openings.
| 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 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18850 |
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