Woman showing baggage contents to customs officer, N.D.L. pier, New York – Antique Wall Art
(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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Woman showing baggage contents to customs officer, N.D.L. pier, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Woman showing baggage contents to customs officer, N.D.L. pier, New York
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Here a traveler opens her luggage on the pier of the North German Lloyd line, the German steamship company whose liners docked on the Hudson in New York. Customs inspection of baggage happened on the pier as passengers came ashore, and the scene shows that routine at close range. The Bain News Service, which supplied press photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, made the negative, and its caption data is recorded here as unverified. The picture is a useful glimpse of the transatlantic passenger trade and of the paperwork and scrutiny that came with it.
| Created / published | 9/9/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,847 × 4,285 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5452 |
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