Pieronne Retaken, 1918 – 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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A window into the past: Pieronne Retaken, 1918, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pieronne Retaken, 1918
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The town of Péronne, on the Somme River in northern France, is the subject of this 1918 glass negative, which the Bain News Service titled "Pieronne Retaken." The caption is recorded as unverified, so the exact scene is uncertain, but the title points to the period when Allied forces pushed the Germans out of the town in the late summer of 1918. Péronne had changed hands during the fighting of 1916 and the German spring offensive, and it was left heavily damaged. The Bain collection, built from a New York news photo service, preserves many images like this one, which record wartime news for newspapers and magazines.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,154 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29156 |
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