Fireplace – Historic 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
This rare historic photograph captures Fireplace in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fireplace
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The record gives only a bare title, "Fireplace," with no place, date, or maker beyond the Bain News Service, so this glass negative has to be read through its collection. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds some 40,000 negatives made by the Bain News Service, a press photo agency that operated in New York from about 1899 into the 1920s and supplied images of people, buildings, and events to newspapers. Its glass plates were often captioned in haste, so a title like this one is worth treating as a working label rather than a verified description. Taken alone, the picture shows a hearth and its surroundings, a subject that could record a domestic interior, a public room, or a building feature photographed for reference.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,885 × 6,410 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33900 |
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