Subway porter – Antique Wall Art
(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 Subway porter. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A porter at work in a subway setting is the particular subject here, a worker whose job kept the new underground transit system running for passengers. The record does not date the negative, but the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain around 1899, supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, when New York's subway, which opened in 1904, was a major public novelty. Glass negatives like this one show the detail and tonal range that made such pictures useful to editors. Because the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, the specific location and the worker's identity remain open questions.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,397 × 4,928 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25961 |
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