Crowd watching post office clock. Rothenburg – 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 Crowd watching post office clock. Rothenburg, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crowd watching post office clock. Rothenburg
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This picture shows a crowd gathered in the German town of Rothenburg, looking up at a post office clock. Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a medieval walled town in Bavaria that drew visitors even in the early twentieth century, so a crowd fixed on a public timepiece suggests a moment of local interest or ceremony. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers and magazines. Its nitrate negatives are now held by the Library of Congress. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency wrote, which the catalog itself flags as unverified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Nitrate 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,465 × 5,122 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28313 |
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