Spahis in camp at Arsy after battle (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Spahis in camp at Arsy after battle
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17611
Call Number: LC-B2- 3271-11
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sweatpantz added this photo to her favorites. (14 months ago)
swanq (14 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsy
artolog (14 months ago | reply)
Cropped from original in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica online collection of photos from Agence Meurisse.
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90417805
That photo (which does not have Bain's copyright markings) identifies the Spahis as Moroccan, and the location as Ribecourt, not Arsy.
"A Ribecourt : un campement de spahis marocains"
Pub. Date 1914
Arden (LOC P&P) (14 months ago | reply)
Artolog: Thanks for finding the matching image with differing location information in the Gallica website. Its great to have the men identified as Moroccan and the name of the press agency, Agence Meurisse, who were probably responsible for the image which Bain copied. We will include some of these details in the image description when we update. Seems like the Gallica website may be a fruitful source for more information about some of the Bain World War I images.
Wystan (14 months ago | reply)
Other Bain/LOC photos of Spahis:
shoebomber2010 (14 months ago | reply)
GREAT research, Artolog!
Great photo. I love the detail and the sense of seeing a 'day in the life of a moroccan soldier'.
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