X-mas Postcards – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: X-mas Postcards, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This glass negative is titled "X-mas Postcards," which points to holiday greeting cards as its subject, though the record gives no date or view of the cards themselves. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain, produced and distributed images like this for newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, when glass plates were still the standard for press work. Holiday postcards were then a popular and heavily mailed form of greeting, and the title on the caption card is noted as unverified, so the exact subject is best read as a suggestion rather than a confirmed description.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10149 |
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