Wool taken to river to be washed – 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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Wool taken to river to be washed 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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Wool taken to river to be washed
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Few pictures in the Bain News Service holdings show the raw material of textile making as plainly as this one, with a load of wool being carried toward the river for washing before it could be spun or woven. The record gives no date and no photographer's name, and the title itself comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives or cards, which the Library of Congress has not verified. Bain's agency, active in New York from the early 1900s, sold news and feature photographs to newspapers, so pictures like this one were usually made to illustrate an industry or a daily task. Washing raw fleece in running water to remove grease and dirt was an ordinary step in wool production, and it is worth noticing how much of it was still done by hand at the time.
| 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 | 5,716 × 4,116 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27412 |
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