Fire Wood -- Jerusalem – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Fire Wood -- Jerusalem, 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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Fire Wood -- Jerusalem
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Fire Wood in Jerusalem is one of the glass negatives from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, and its title is the only detail the record gives us. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that circulated images in the early twentieth century, supplied that label on the negative or its caption card, and the library notes it as unverified. The picture shows a wood-gathering scene in a city whose stone streets and household fuel were then a daily concern for ordinary residents, and the bundled fuel and the people handling it offer a quieter view of Jerusalem than the holy sites that dominate most of its photographs.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28727 |
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