Road near Rheims -- camouflaged – 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 Road near Rheims -- camouflaged. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Road near Rheims -- camouflaged
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The title places this view on a road near Reims, the cathedral city in northeastern France that lay close to the front during the First World War. The screens or netting strung over the roadway were a common wartime measure, meant to hide troop and supply movement from enemy observers in aircraft and on higher ground. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of news photographs supplied by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed images to newspapers and magazines in the 1910s. The record gives no exact date, and the title comes from caption information the agency recorded, so the location is best read as the agency's own description.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27240 |
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