Oxygen helmets in mine rescues – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Oxygen helmets in mine rescues. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Oxygen helmets in mine rescues
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Rescue crews at coal mines in the early twentieth century often relied on self-contained breathing apparatus, heavy helmets fed by air hoses or carried oxygen tanks, to reach men trapped by fire, gas or cave-ins. This glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of pictures made by the Bain News Service, a Manhattan picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from the 1900s into the 1920s. The Library of Congress notes that its title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negatives or cards, so the subject is the best guide to what is shown.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10815 |
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