MAGESTIC – Vintage Wall Art
(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of MAGESTIC. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The record gives this picture only the title "MAGESTIC," a word taken from the negative or its caption card and not checked against other sources, so it may be a misspelling of "Majestic." That name could refer to a theater, a ship, a hotel, or a business, but the record does not say which. The image is a glass negative of no more than 5 by 7 inches, made for the Bain News Service, a New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain in the early 1900s to supply news photographs to newspapers. Bain's glass plates document the city's streets, events, and people in the years before the wide use of film, and they are a useful record of how press photographers worked in that period.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,913 × 6,447 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35535 |
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