Lens, France, 1919 – Historic Photo 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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Step back in time with Lens, France, 1919, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless
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Lens, France, 1919
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Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais coalfield of northern France, was a mining town in 1919 that had spent most of the Great War close to the front. German forces held it from late 1914 until the autumn of 1918, when British and Canadian troops pushed them out. The fighting left the streets, housing, and pit works badly damaged, and the mines that had long supplied coal to the region were among the first things the town had to restore. In 1919 the work was slow and uneven, with families returning to ruined neighborhoods and the coal basin's industry trying to restart. A panoramic view of the town from that year shows a place still defined by its wartime destruction and the effort to rebuild its economy.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schutz group photographers (washington, d.c.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,056 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless |
| Reference | FRANCE Lens, 1919 |
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