Opening of schools – Historic 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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A window into the past: Opening of schools, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Opening of schools
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The record gives only a general title, "Opening of schools," with no place, date, or named people, so this glass negative is best understood through the collection it comes from. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds work from the Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency that supplied newspapers and magazines with pictures of current events in the early twentieth century, roughly from the 1900s through the 1920s. Its staff photographed street scenes, public institutions, and civic occasions, and school openings were a common subject for local and national papers. Because the negative is a glass plate, its surface detail and tonal range are sharper than most later film, which makes the picture useful for examining clothing, architecture, and crowd behavior of the period.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15569 |
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