At Champigny -- giving wine to Algerian troops – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of At Champigny -- giving wine to Algerian troops. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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At Champigny -- giving wine to Algerian troops
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The scene is set at Champigny, a village on the Marne east of Paris that saw heavy fighting in late 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. The title places Algerian soldiers receiving wine there, a detail that reflects the North African troops who served in the French army. The Bain News Service caption supplies this identification, but its date is not recorded, and the photograph's exact year and circumstances remain unconfirmed. Bain's wire photographs were often taken for newspapers, so the picture likely reflects how press images presented colonial soldiers to the public.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18282 |
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