Hounsditch outrage, Firemen at work – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Hounsditch outrage, Firemen at work in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hounsditch outrage, Firemen at work
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Houndsditch, the London street the caption names, is an old thoroughfare in the City, and the title pairs it with the word "outrage" and a scene of firemen at work. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service wrote and that have not been checked against other sources, so the exact incident is uncertain. Bain's agency sent glass negatives like this one to newspapers across the United States in the early twentieth century, when horse-drawn and newly motorized fire apparatus was a frequent subject of news pictures. The image is worth studying for its equipment and street setting, which show how urban firefighting looked at that time.
| 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 | 4,185 × 5,767 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10178 |
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