Foochow – 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
Step back in time with Foochow, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Foochow is the older Romanized spelling of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province on the Min River in southeastern China. The city was one of five treaty ports opened to foreign trade under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, which drew merchants, missionaries and diplomats there in the following decades. This glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that distributed news and feature photographs in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date or photographer, and the title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negative or its card, so the exact view and its moment remain uncertain.
| 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 | 5,792 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11180 |
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