Altman Regt, Home Defense League – 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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Altman Regt, Home Defense League comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Altman Regt, Home Defense League
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The caption names a unit called Altman Regt within the Home Defense League, a civilian volunteer force that took shape during the United States' preparations for World War I. Groups like this drilled older men and others who could not serve overseas, so they could guard bridges, utilities and other local sites if regular troops were stretched thin. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, sold pictures like this one to newspapers, and its glass negatives capture a wartime home front that is easy to overlook. The title comes from caption cards the agency wrote, so the details of this particular unit remain unverified.
| 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 | 5,778 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25964 |
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