Boy Scouts. On Horseback with spears held aloft. – 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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This historic photograph of Boy Scouts. On Horseback with spears held aloft. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boy Scouts. On Horseback with spears held aloft.
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A troop of Boy Scouts sits mounted with spears raised overhead, a pose that turns a youth-movement drill into something closer to a cavalry parade. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the photo archive of Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news pictures in the early twentieth century. Scouting arrived in America around 1910, and mounted troops drew attention for combining outdoor skills with old-fashioned horsemanship. The title comes from caption information written at the time and has not been independently verified, so the exact place and date remain uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 934 × 698 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9396 |
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