HENLEY launch – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: HENLEY launch, 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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HENLEY launch
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The title points to a launch at Henley, but the record does not say which Henley or what was launched, and the title itself comes from unverified caption data. Henley-on-Thames in England is best known for its rowing regatta, so a boat is a reasonable guess, though nothing in the record confirms it. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs in the early twentieth century, made its glass negatives in the common 5 by 7 inch format, and its captions were often written quickly, so the subject is best treated as a lead to check against other sources.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11708 |
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