Prison in Sandjak of Novibazar ? – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Prison in Sandjak of Novibazar ? in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Prison in Sandjak of Novibazar ?
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The title, recorded by the Bain News Service with a question mark, names a prison in the Sandjak of Novibazar, an Ottoman administrative district in the western Balkans, though the place and date remain unverified. The name is an older spelling of Novi Pazar, a region where Austria-Hungary held a military presence after 1878, when the Balkans drew steady attention from European newspapers. The Bain agency, a New York news photography business, sold pictures of distant events to those papers, so the image is best read as a glimpse of how the region was presented to American readers.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12870 |
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