Gov. Foss & Mayor Gaynor – 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: Gov. Foss & Mayor Gaynor, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gov. Foss & Mayor Gaynor
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Here the pairing is the point: Eugene N. Foss, governor of Massachusetts, and William J. Gaynor, mayor of New York City, two Democrats holding office in neighboring states in the early 1910s. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers, made the glass negative, but the record gives no date or occasion for the meeting. The names come from caption data the agency recorded and have not been independently checked, so the identification is worth confirming before you rely on it. Gaynor had survived an assassination attempt in 1910, which made him a figure of national attention that year.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12090 |
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