City Employees - N.Y. – 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.)
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A window into the past: City Employees - N.Y., 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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City Employees - N.Y.
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Captioned simply "City Employees - N.Y.," this negative puts the focus on municipal workers in New York City, though the record gives no names, date, or location within the city. It was made on a glass plate, a format that dominated press and commercial photography before film became common in the 1920s. The image belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work produced by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency founded in 1899 that supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines. Because the title comes from caption cards whose accuracy has not been verified, viewers should treat the subject description as a starting point and consider the agency's broader body of urban and civic photography as the best context for reading it.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,253 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14201 |
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