Arch at Yokohama – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Arch at Yokohama in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Arch at Yokohama
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Yokohama's arch is the subject here, though the record gives no date and no detail about its design, so its exact form and purpose are unknown. The city grew quickly after it opened to foreign trade in 1859, becoming one of Japan's main ports and a place where Western merchants, diplomats and photographers were a familiar presence. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its title comes from information the service recorded on the negatives or caption cards and has not been independently verified.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,923 × 6,438 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34580 |
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