La Forge – 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.)
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A window into the past: La Forge, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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La Forge
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The title "La Forge" is French for "the forge," but the Bain News Service attached it to this negative without verification, so the subject may be a place, a person, or a workshop of some kind. The image survives as a 5 by 7 inch or smaller glass negative, a format that news photographers used widely in the early twentieth century before flexible film became standard. George Grantham Bain's agency, based in New York, supplied pictures of current events, personalities, and everyday scenes to newspapers and magazines. Its negatives are valuable for showing how photojournalism worked in that period, even when, as here, the record leaves the specific subject open.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,865 × 3,384 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24846 |
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