Lancers outside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem – 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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Lancers outside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lancers outside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
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Jaffa Gate, the western entrance through the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, is the detail that sets this glass negative apart from the other views on its board, which mostly show the city's streets and monuments. The subject is a file of mounted lancers posed at the gate, a reminder of how cavalry units were a visible part of military life in Ottoman and then British-administered Palestine. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The date is not recorded, and the title comes from unverified caption information, so the exact moment is uncertain. Viewers should weigh the lancers as an impression of the period rather than a documented event.
| 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 | 5,692 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28700 |
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