Sail Wagon, Brooklyn – Antique 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 Sail Wagon, Brooklyn. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sail Wagon, Brooklyn
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A wheeled wagon fitted with a mast and canvas is the subject of this Brooklyn glass negative, which the record labels a sail wagon. Land-sailing carts of this kind drew attention in the early 1900s, when enthusiasts rigged sails to simple running gear and tried them on flat roads and open stretches of sand. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, made many such pictures for newspapers. Its title and caption data are unverified, so the exact date and occasion remain uncertain, but the glass plate preserves fine detail of the rig.
| 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 | 4,129 × 5,729 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12147 |
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