Meaux Bridge wrecked by French Engineers – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Meaux Bridge wrecked by French Engineers. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Meaux Bridge wrecked by French Engineers
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The bridge at Meaux, a town on the Marne east of Paris, was blown up by French engineers in the early weeks of World War I, as German forces pressed toward the capital. Demolishing river crossings was a common way to slow an invading army and give defenders time to regroup, and the fighting along the Marne in September 1914 turned on such delays. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, sent images of wartime scenes like this one to American newspapers, so the negative shows how the damage was presented to readers abroad. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact date of the photograph is uncertain.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,722 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18639 |
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