Harrowing Race Track – 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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Harrowing Race Track. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harrowing Race Track
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This plate is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, and its title, "Harrowing Race Track," suggests a scene of a track being raked or groomed for racing, though the record gives no date and the title itself is unverified. Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news and feature photographs in the early twentieth century, so its images often capture everyday work and public life of that era. The 8 by 10 inch format was common for press work of the time, and the sharp detail of such plates makes the ground, equipment, and setting worth a close look.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| 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 | 1,118 × 893 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2614 |
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