Porte and Halle – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Porte and Halle, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Porte and Halle
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Titled "Porte and Halle," this glass negative carries a caption that the Library of Congress describes as unverified, taken from the negative or its caption card, so the subject itself remains uncertain. The name suggests a gate and a hall, though nothing in the record confirms where or when the scene was made. The George Grantham Bain Collection came from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold photographs of news events, public figures and city scenes, mostly in the early 1900s through the 1910s. Its glass plates were the standard working medium of that era, so the negative itself is a useful record of how the agency worked.
| 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 | 5,767 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17640 |
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