Liberty Parade Pershing Vets? – 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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A window into the past: Liberty Parade Pershing Vets?, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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What sets this negative apart is its title, which links a Liberty parade to Pershing veterans, though the question mark shows the Bain News Service caption was never fully confirmed. Liberty Loan parades drew crowds during the First World War to promote government bond drives, and General John J. Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Forces in France, so a march honoring his troops would fit that wartime moment. The George Grantham Bain Collection preserves news photographs of this kind, offering a useful record of how American cities gathered for public ceremonies in those years.
| 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 | 4,846 × 3,334 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27989 |
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