EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND
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The Empress of Scotland was a Canadian Pacific steamship that carried passengers across the Atlantic, and this glass negative likely records the liner in its working life in the early twentieth century, when Bain News Service photographers were busy documenting ships, dockside scenes and newsworthy arrivals in New York. The record gives no date or photographer, and its title comes from caption information that the Library of Congress itself describes as unverified, so the exact occasion remains uncertain. What survives is typical of the Bain collection: a sharp, large-format glass plate that captures the scale of ocean travel during an era when transatlantic liners were among the most visible symbols of modern mobility.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,739 × 3,182 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40015 |
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