Launch of 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Launch of NEW YORK. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Launch of NEW YORK
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The title points to a ship launch, with NEW YORK in capitals as the subject, though the record notes that this wording comes from unverified caption data and gives no date. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, produced the glass negatives in this collection, and its pictures of ship launches and waterfront events were made for newspaper use. Launch ceremonies drew large crowds of dignitaries, sponsors and workers gathered on the shipyard ways, so these photographs often capture the crowd as much as the hull. The small 5 by 7 inch format was common for news work of the period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11955 |
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