Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York – 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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A window into the past: Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York
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Union Square in Manhattan was a busy gathering place in 1908, and this glass negative captures flowers offered for sale there around the Easter season. The record dates the picture to April 19, 1908, a week after Easter Sunday that year, so the stalls may have been selling leftover holiday stock or preparing for the next round of spring buyers. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied pictures of city life to newspapers. The title is taken from unverified data on the negative, so the exact location and occasion should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | 4/19/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1536 |
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