At Broad Channel - in the Living room – 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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This rare historic photograph captures At Broad Channel - in the Living room in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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At Broad Channel - in the Living room
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Its title places this interior at Broad Channel, a low-lying community on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York, rather than a street or landmark. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, supplied pictures like this to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives document everyday life across the city and its outlying neighborhoods. Broad Channel was a modest bayside settlement of houses linked by bridge to the Rockaway peninsula, so a domestic view from there offers a glimpse of ordinary household life. The record gives no date or photographer, and the title is unverified, so the room's details are best read as a general picture of the period.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,922 × 3,334 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21090 |
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