Horse's Ghost at the fair, Poplar, Mont. – 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.)
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A window into the past: Horse's Ghost at the fair, Poplar, Mont., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Horse's Ghost at the fair, Poplar, Mont.
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A fair at Poplar, a small town in northeastern Montana, is the setting here, and the title's name, Horse's Ghost, may refer to a horse, a person or a place, since the catalog record notes it is unverified. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, sent photographers across the country, and its glass negatives record fairs, rodeos and daily life in towns far from the big cities where most of its pictures were published. Fairs of this kind in the early twentieth century drew farm and ranch families together to show livestock and compete, making them useful subjects for a news service looking for regional scenes.
| 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 | 1,076 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15444 |
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