Church of St. Jean, Dixmude – Antique 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 Church of St. Jean, Dixmude in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Church of St. Jean, Dixmude
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Few towns on the Western Front suffered as much as Dixmude, the Belgian town on the Yser whose church of St. Jean appears here. Fighting along the Yser in 1914 and the years that followed reduced much of the town to rubble, and churches were among the buildings battered by artillery. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, circulated views like this one to American readers following the war's aftermath. The record gives no date, so the picture is best read as part of the wider body of images showing European towns in ruin.
| 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 | 4,254 × 5,835 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19150 |
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