Aldermanic graft committee – 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: Aldermanic graft committee, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aldermanic graft committee
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This negative stands out for its title, which points to an aldermanic graft committee, a council panel examining alleged bribery or kickbacks. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures in the early 1900s, made the image, but the record gives no date, location or names. Corruption probes of city lawmakers were common in American municipal politics of that era, when franchises and contracts drew heavy press scrutiny. The title comes from unverified agency notes, so the committee's identity should be treated as provisional.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,810 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11890 |
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