War Camp -- Company Canteen – Historic 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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War Camp -- Company Canteen
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The record for this glass negative gives the title "War Camp -- Company Canteen," which points to a unit canteen on an American military training camp, though the caption is unverified and the record gives no date. Such canteens were common during the First World War, when relief organizations and camp authorities set up small stands where soldiers could buy food, writing paper, and tobacco, and find a place to rest away from their barracks. The negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. That makes it a useful glimpse of everyday camp life, beyond the drilling and battle scenes more often photographed.
| 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 | 4,884 × 3,359 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28358 |
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