Firing line at a National Match – Vintage Photo Print
![Firing line at a National Match, [between 1908 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f4/f46057104ae7-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Firing line at a National Match, 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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Firing line at a National Match
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Shooters at the firing line, where competitors took their positions to fire toward distant targets, are the subject of this glass negative from the National Photo Company. The title comes from unverified data, but the setting fits the National Matches, the annual marksmanship competitions that drew military and civilian shooters to ranges such as Camp Perry in Ohio. The Washington, D.C., firm made many thousands of negatives in the early twentieth century, and this one dates to roughly 1908 to 1919. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from natural deterioration of the original coating, which is part of what makes the plate worth examining closely.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,971 × 4,283 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249167 |
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