Blind fencing in Phare de France – Historic Reproduction
(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 Blind fencing in Phare de France. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Blind fencing in Phare de France
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A glass negative in the Bain collection is titled "Blind fencing in Phare de France," though the record gives no date and notes that the title comes from unverified data on the negatives or caption cards, so the location and details should be read with some caution. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures in the early twentieth century, made images like this one for wide circulation. Blind fencing, in which competitors rely on hearing rather than sight to locate an opponent, was practiced as a training and demonstration sport in that era, and it is worth studying how the fencers position themselves and where they focus their attention.
| 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 | 5,747 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24101 |
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