Crowd watching ladder wagon in Fire Dept. Exhibition, New York – Vintage 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.)
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A window into the past: Crowd watching ladder wagon in Fire Dept. Exhibition, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Crowd watching ladder wagon in Fire Dept. Exhibition, New York
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Spectators crowd close around a ladder wagon at a New York Fire Department exhibition in October 1908, caught on a glass negative from George Grantham Bain's news service. Public displays like this let firefighters show their equipment to residents, and in the years around 1908 the department was moving from horse-drawn apparatus to motorized vehicles, which made such events a window onto a changing city. The Bain collection at the Library of Congress is valued as a broad record of New York news and street life from this period.
| Created / published | Oct. 1908. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,866 × 4,328 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3650 |
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