Buying Thanksgiving turkey – 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: Buying Thanksgiving turkey, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Buying Thanksgiving turkey
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Buying a turkey for Thanksgiving is the particular scene here, caught on a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, labeled many of its negatives with titles like this one, though the record does not confirm the exact date or location. Its brief subject line suggests a routine holiday errand, the kind of shopping that filled city markets each November. Glass plates of this kind give fine detail, so the view of the market and the people at work in it is worth 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 | 5,792 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12392 |
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