Vera Cruz -- victims' funeral, Brooklyn -- 1914 – 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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A window into the past: Vera Cruz -- victims' funeral, Brooklyn -- 1914, 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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Vera Cruz -- victims' funeral, Brooklyn -- 1914
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The title places this funeral in Brooklyn for victims of Veracruz, a reference to the U.S. occupation of the Mexican port in April 1914 after a clash with Mexican forces during the revolution. Sailors and Marines who died in that fighting were returned to the United States, and Brooklyn, with its navy yard, was one of the places where such services were held. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, made the glass negative, so the image likely reflects the press interest in the war and its human cost at the time. The record's title comes from unverified agency data, so the exact identity of the dead and the service itself are not confirmed here.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,791 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17743 |
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