Start of yacht race, Central Park – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Start of yacht race, Central Park in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Start of yacht race, Central Park
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Model sailboats set off from the park's water in this view of a yacht start, a pastime that drew city crowds to the lakes and ponds of Central Park. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photography service that supplied pictures to New York newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no firm date, and the title comes from caption cards whose details have not been verified, so the specific race is unidentified. The scene still shows how organized sailing and crowds of onlookers were part of the park's leisure life in that period.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20207 |
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