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Durazzo – Vintage Wall Art

Durazzo, n/a — historic photograph
Durazzo, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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 Durazzo. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Durazzo

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The title points to Durazzo, the Adriatic port now known as Durrës in Albania, a city that drew international attention around 1914 and during the First World War. Bain News Service, the New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain, supplied photographs like this one to newspapers and magazines, so the picture was likely made for its news value. The record gives no date, and the title is unverified, so the exact subject and when it was taken remain uncertain. The surviving glass negative is an original from the agency's own production.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan4,223 × 5,791 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-22140

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