Carnarvon Castle – 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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Carnarvon Castle comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Carnarvon Castle
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Carnarvon Castle, the medieval fortress in north Wales, is the subject here, a site that has drawn visitors and photographers since the nineteenth century. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, made by the Bain News Service, a Manhattan press agency that supplied news and feature pictures to American newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards whose accuracy the library itself has not verified, so the exact year of exposure is uncertain. Built largely from the late thirteenth century under Edward I, the castle is worth noticing for its banded stonework and polygonal towers.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10394 |
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