Tobacco parade, Union Sq. – Antique Wall Art
(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: Tobacco parade, Union Sq., 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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Tobacco parade, Union Sq.
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A tobacco parade winding through Union Square gives this glass negative its particular character, a street event caught in the lens of the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose staff documented city life in the early twentieth century. Union Square, at the junction of Broadway and Fourth Avenue, was a common gathering place for marches, rallies and promotions of the period, and the Bain archive holds many views of such crowds on Manhattan streets. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the parade remains uncertain, but the glass plate itself, with its sharp detail, is worth a close look for the street scene it preserves.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,853 × 3,346 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26499 |
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