Packing for Christmas Ship – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Packing for Christmas Ship. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Packing for Christmas Ship
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Workers are shown packing holiday gifts for a Christmas ship, the vessels that carried presents and supplies to communities that could not easily receive them by land. The record gives no date or location, and its title comes from unverified notes written by the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose glass negatives make up George Grantham Bain's collection. That collection mostly covers the early twentieth century, and the scene fits the charitable holiday shipping customs of that period. The emphasis on the packing itself, rather than the ship, shows how much organized labor went into getting seasonal goodwill to its recipients.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,723 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18983 |
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