Book Stalls, Paris – Vintage 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 Book Stalls, Paris. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Book Stalls, Paris
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Lining the Seine embankments in Paris, the open-air book stalls, known as the bouquinistes, have sold secondhand books and prints from green wooden boxes bolted to the parapet for centuries. This glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress shows that trade as it was photographed in the early twentieth century, when the Bain News Service supplied newspapers with images of city life. The record gives no firm date, and its title comes from caption data the agency wrote on the negatives, so the exact year is unconfirmed. Still, the scene of stacked volumes and browsing customers along the river remains one of the city's most recognizable features.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,641 × 3,726 px · prints to 19 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9841 |
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