Inaug. Nonin - Basha Bridge, Osaka – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Inaug. Nonin - Basha Bridge, Osaka. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Inaug. Nonin - Basha Bridge, Osaka
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The title places this glass negative at Basha Bridge in Osaka, Japan, and its abbreviated "Inaug." suggests a dedication or opening ceremony, though the record does not say what was opened or who "Nonin" refers to. Osaka grew up around a dense network of rivers and canals, so new bridges there carried real civic weight, and a ceremony marking one would have drawn local attention. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact year remains 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,233 × 5,858 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32204 |
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