Tripoli - PISA at Derna – Historic 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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A window into the past: Tripoli - PISA at Derna, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tripoli - PISA at Derna
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The caption pairs Tripoli with a site at Derna and the word PISA, but the Bain News Service marked its title as unverified, so the subject deserves some caution. Derna lies on the Libyan coast east of Tripoli, and Italian forces seized it in late 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War, a campaign that drew wide attention in American newspapers. The Bain agency supplied photographs of news events like this to illustrated papers, which helps explain how scenes from distant North African fronts reached New York readers so quickly.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,723 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11273 |
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