Dinner on Hosp. Train – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Dinner on Hosp. Train, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dinner on Hosp. Train
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Few pictures on this board show a meal being served aboard a hospital train, which makes this one unusual among the railroad views. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service wrote without verification, so the scene's exact setting is uncertain. Hospital trains carried wounded soldiers and patients from the front or from crowded stations to better-equipped facilities, and the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of news photographs from the early twentieth century, often captured such wartime and transport scenes. Looking at the people and the car's furnishings can help place the moment in its period.
| 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 | 3,000 × 4,138 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29997 |
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