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Motorcycles requisitioned, Paris – Historic Print

Motorcycles requisitioned, Paris, n/a — historic photograph
Motorcycles requisitioned, Paris, n/a. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(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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Motorcycles taken into military service in Paris give this glass negative its particular subject. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, made the negative, though the date on its caption data is unverified. France requisitioned civilian motor vehicles during the First World War, when the army needed transport, so the scene may come from that period, though the record does not confirm it. It is worth noticing how everyday two-wheeled machines became wartime resources.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 four loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,767 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-18195

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