Coney Isl. – Vintage 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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Coney Isl. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Coney Island, the amusement and beach district on the southern tip of Brooklyn, is the subject named in this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that operated from about 1899 into the 1920s, supplied pictures to newspapers and magazines, and its files record many scenes from New York's public life. The record gives no firm date, and the title comes from the agency's own unverified caption cards, so the exact moment is uncertain. Still, the glass plate format points to the early twentieth century, when Coney Island drew huge crowds to its boardwalk, rides and bathing beaches.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20410 |
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