Subway porter – Historic Reproduction
(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: Subway porter, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Titled "Subway porter," this glass negative shows a worker whose job was to carry passengers' bags and assist travelers in a subway station, a role that would have been familiar in the early decades of the New York subway after it opened in 1904. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency founded in 1899, produced and sold news and feature photographs like this one, and its negatives were later gathered into the Library of Congress. The record gives no date or exact location, so the title comes from the original caption cards and should be read as a label rather than a confirmed description.
| 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 | 3,322 × 4,847 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25960 |
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