N.Y. Playground – 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 N.Y. Playground in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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N.Y. Playground
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This view shows a New York playground, one of the outdoor play spaces that spread through American cities in the early 1900s as reformers pushed to give children in crowded tenement neighborhoods somewhere safer than the street to play. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, sent its photographers out to record city life, and its glass negatives capture the everyday scenes it considered newsworthy. The record gives no date or exact location, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of the period's urban playground movement rather than a documented event. Its small glass negative format is typical of the agency's work.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,753 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15240 |
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