Military motor cycle squad, Harvard – 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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Military motor cycle squad, Harvard comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Military motor cycle squad, Harvard
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A group of military motorcycle riders gathered at Harvard, in Cambridge across the Charles River from Boston, is the subject of this glass negative. The plate is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection of news photographs from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from about 1900 into the 1920s. The title comes from caption information written by the agency and has not been independently verified, so the exact occasion and date remain uncertain. Motorcycles were still a fairly new military tool in that period, used mainly for messenger and dispatch work, which makes the image a useful view of how the machines were being introduced.
| 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 | 5,785 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25329 |
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