End of race-Nagasaki-Tokyo – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of End of race-Nagasaki-Tokyo. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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End of race-Nagasaki-Tokyo
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The title names Nagasaki and Tokyo alongside the end of a race, but the record does not say which contest or route it describes, and the title itself is noted as unverified. The picture is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the New York news photography agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century and is now held by the Library of Congress. Glass plates like this one captured fine detail, and without a confirmed date, the image is best read within that wider period of international news photography.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,988 × 6,569 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35800 |
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