Brighton Beach fire, 1912 – Antique 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 Brighton Beach fire, 1912, 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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Brighton Beach fire, 1912
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The record gives this picture as a fire at Brighton Beach in 1912, the seaside resort on the Brooklyn shore of New York City, which drew large crowds to its hotels, racetrack, and boardwalk in the early 1900s. The title comes from data that the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives or caption cards, and the catalog does not independently confirm it, so the exact building and circumstances remain uncertain. George Grantham Bain ran one of the first commercial news photo agencies in New York, selling pictures of breaking events to newspapers, so images like this one show how press photographers recorded fires and other local disasters for a daily readership.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,729 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11969 |
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