Pilot Collins – 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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A window into the past: Pilot Collins, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pilot Collins
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The title names a pilot called Collins, but the record does not say whether he flew aircraft or guided ships into harbor, and the caption information is unverified. The image survives as a glass negative in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain News Service, a New York agency that operated from about 1899 into the early 1930s, supplied newspapers with news photographs, so pictures like this were made to be reproduced quickly for daily readers. Glass negatives of this kind record fine tonal detail, which makes them especially useful to researchers today.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,397 × 4,972 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16130 |
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