July 4th parade – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures July 4th parade in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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July 4th parade
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The record gives a bare title, "July 4th parade," with no place, year, or named participants, so this glass negative is best understood through the collection it belongs to. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, built from the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sent photographers out to cover news events and sold the pictures to newspapers. Bain's operation ran in the early twentieth century, and its negatives capture street life, public ceremonies, and civic celebrations of that era. Independence Day parades in American cities of this period drew crowds, marching bands, and floats, and the glass plates preserve how those gatherings looked before routine newspaper photography became common.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,928 × 3,340 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28598 |
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