Archery tournament - Boston – Antique 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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Step back in time with Archery tournament - Boston, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Archery tournament - Boston
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Boston hosted this archery tournament, preserved on a glass negative with no recorded date, and its title rests on caption cards from the Bain News Service that have not been verified. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Archery was a popular pastime for clubs and public competitions in that era, and the agency's pictures often documented such events for readers who wanted images of current life. Glass negatives of this size were the standard tool of press photographers before roll film took over, which makes the plate itself worth close attention.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,734 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15163 |
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