Burying horses, Battlefield of Haelen – 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: Burying horses, Battlefield of Haelen, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Burying horses, Battlefield of Haelen
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Few pictures in the Bain collection show the aftermath of battle as plainly as this one, which records the burial of horses on the battlefield at Haelen. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that distributed images from European fronts during the First World War, and the record gives no date, so the subject is the best clue to when it was made. Horses died in great numbers in that war, killed in charges, by shellfire, and from exhaustion, and burying them was a hurried, unglamorous task left to troops behind the lines. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact location should be treated with some caution.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,072 × 778 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18618 |
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