Honor men of the N.Y. Fire Dept. lined up, New York – 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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Honor men of the N.Y. Fire Dept. lined up, New York
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Men of the New York Fire Department stand in a formal line under the title "Honor men," a lineup that suggests a ceremony or inspection rather than a fire call. The picture is a glass negative from October 1908, made by the Bain News Service, a commercial agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s. Bain's photographers recorded city life, public events and emergency workers, so the image gives a sense of how the department presented itself during the years when horse-drawn apparatus was giving way to motorized equipment. The title comes from caption data the agency recorded, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.
| Created / published | Oct. 1908. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,872 × 4,335 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3646 |
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