Mobilizing before Gare de Lyon, Paris – 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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Step back in time with Mobilizing before Gare de Lyon, Paris, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mobilizing before Gare de Lyon, Paris
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The title points to a mobilization at the Gare de Lyon, one of Paris's principal rail terminals, whose trains ran south and southeast toward Lyon, Marseille and the Alps. Mobilization in France is most closely tied to the summer of 1914, when reservists were called to their units and crowds gathered at the stations. The record gives no date, so the exact moment remains uncertain. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs to newspapers, collected pictures like this one, and its glass negatives preserve a firsthand view of the scene at the platform.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18490 |
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