Launch of NEW YORK (reversed) – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Launch of NEW YORK (reversed). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Launch of NEW YORK (reversed)
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The title points to a ship launch, with "New York" as the name on the hull or the event, though the record flags that label as unverified. The negative is reversed, so the image is mirror-flipped from how it was first taken, a common problem with glass plates that were printed without correction. The Bain News Service, a photo agency active in New York from the early 1900s into the 1920s, made pictures like this for newspapers that wanted quick images of launches, crowds and waterfront events. Launch photographs of that era usually show a hull on the slipway, workers, and onlookers, which is worth checking against the image itself.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,198 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11957 |
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