Corfu from Castell – Historic 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: Corfu from Castell, 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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Corfu from Castell
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This view is titled "Corfu from Castell," and the caption is unverified, so the vantage point is best read as a hint rather than a certainty. Corfu's old town is known for its Venetian-era fortifications on the headlands above the harbor, which makes a view from a fortress plausible. The negative is a glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made for the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news and feature photographs in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one preserve fine detail, so the rooftops, shoreline, and water may reward a close look.
| 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 | 5,854 × 4,197 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16020 |
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