Gen. Sir Jas. Willcocks – 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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Step back in time with Gen. Sir Jas. Willcocks, 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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Gen. Sir Jas. Willcocks
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The sitter is General Sir James Willcocks, a British Army officer who spent much of his career in India and later led Indian troops on the Western Front during the First World War. This glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, so the portrait was likely made for wartime or press use. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency supplied and has not been independently verified. Even so, the image shows how British commanders were presented to the public during the war, when portraits of senior officers were widely circulated to inform readers about the conflict.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,172 × 5,722 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24370 |
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