Coliseum, Chicago – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Coliseum, Chicago, 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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Coliseum, Chicago
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The Chicago Coliseum stood on Wabash Avenue as one of the city's largest indoor halls, and this glass negative shows it as a public gathering place rather than a single event. The hall hosted national political conventions, including the 1896 Democratic convention, where William Jennings Bryan delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech, along with boxing matches, circuses, and exhibitions. The Bain News Service, which produced this negative, was a wire photo agency that documented Chicago and national news in the early 1900s. The record does not confirm the date or the exact occasion, so the title is best read as a label from the agency's caption cards.
| 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 | 5,785 × 4,217 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11795 |
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