Foundation, Temple of Sun, Baalbek – Vintage Print
(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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Foundation, Temple of Sun, Baalbek comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Foundation, Temple of Sun, Baalbek
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This glass negative shows a foundation at Baalbek, the Roman-era religious complex in the Bekaa Valley of present-day Lebanon, where the stone bases of the large temples still stand above the surrounding ground. The title comes from the Bain News Service caption, which the Library of Congress lists as unverified, and the great sanctuary there is more often associated with Jupiter than with the Sun. Bain's agency sent photographers to document places like this for newspaper readers in the early twentieth century, when the ruins drew wide interest. The massive, carefully fitted blocks of the substructure are the feature most worth looking at.
| 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 | 2,940 × 3,871 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27149 |
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