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Cavalry -- Portugal – Antique Print

Cavalry -- Portugal, n/a — historic photograph
Cavalry -- Portugal, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Cavalry -- Portugal. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Cavalry -- Portugal

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Unlike many pictures on this board, this glass negative shows cavalry in Portugal, though the record gives no date and its title is unverified, so the occasion and the riders' unit remain unknown. The Bain News Service, the New York agency George Grantham Bain founded around the turn of the twentieth century, sold news photographs to newspapers, and its glass plates often capture how mounted troops were still a visible part of European armies in that period. The posture of the horses and the riders' equipment are worth studying for clues about the era.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,766 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-20395

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