Housewives league at Wash. Market – Vintage 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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Housewives league at Wash. Market comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Housewives league at Wash. Market
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The record places this glass negative at a "Wash. Market," most likely the Washington Market produce and provision district on the lower west side of Manhattan, though the abbreviation is not spelled out and the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data. Housewives' leagues were women's groups that organized in the early 1900s to press back against rising food prices, often by urging boycotts and by pressing merchants and officials over price and sanitation concerns. Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York in the 1910s, documented such scenes for newspapers, so the picture is best read as a record of a consumer protest at a working market rather than a posed portrait.
| 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 | 5,828 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11701 |
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