Show horse-back riders, Society Circus, Long Branch – 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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Step back in time with Show horse-back riders, Society Circus, Long Branch, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Show horse-back riders, Society Circus, Long Branch
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Long Branch, the New Jersey shore resort, is the setting for this scene of riders on horseback at a Society Circus, a kind of amateur show staged by wealthy summer residents for charity and amusement. Horse acts were a staple of these events, and the photographer's attention to the riders reflects how central such displays were to the resort's social calendar. The glass negative comes from George Grantham Bain, whose Bain News Service supplied news pictures to newspapers in New York and beyond in the early twentieth century. The title and date, 8/14/09, come from caption information the service recorded and that has not been independently verified, so the precise occasion should be read with that caveat in mind.
| Created / published | 8/14/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 946 × 720 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5390 |
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