U-Boat survivors – 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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U-Boat survivors comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few details survive for this glass negative beyond its title, which the Bain News Service attached to the plate and which has not been verified, so the men pictured cannot be identified from the record. The title points to German submarine crews, whose U-boats threatened Atlantic shipping in both world wars, and survivors of sunk or surrendered boats were often photographed as news subjects. George Grantham Bain's agency in New York supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so the plate likely reflects that commercial news trade. Viewers should read the scene as a press image rather than a confirmed record of a specific 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 | 4,853 × 3,309 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27356 |
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