Kaiser reviewing troops – 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.)
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Step back in time with Kaiser reviewing troops, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Kaiser reviewing troops
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The title identifies this glass negative as a German Kaiser reviewing troops, a subject that appealed to illustrated newspapers of the period. The record is undated and flags the title as unverified, so the identification should be read as a starting point. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, supplied news pictures to newspapers from about 1899 into the 1920s, which places the image in that wire-photo era. Imperial reviews of this kind were staged displays of military power, and the pictures were meant to convey order and authority.
| 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 | 5,785 × 4,223 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17901 |
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