Sail Wagon, Brooklyn – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Sail Wagon, Brooklyn. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sail Wagon, Brooklyn
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A sail wagon, a wheeled carriage driven by wind on a large sail, was an unusual sight on the flat shorelines and open roads around Brooklyn. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York from the early 1900s, produced glass negatives like this one for newspapers and magazines, so its pictures caught many of the city's passing novelties. The title comes from the agency's own caption cards and has not been independently verified, so the exact location and date remain uncertain. Even so, the picture offers a glimpse of early recreational machinery on the edge of a rapidly growing borough.
| 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 | 5,742 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12148 |
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