Constantinople – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Constantinople. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Little is recorded about this particular negative beyond its title, "Constantinople," which the Bain News Service noted on the glass plate or its caption card without independent verification. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of roughly 40,000 negatives that the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced and distributed in the early twentieth century. Those images were often sold to newspapers and magazines, so many record the cities, events and people that drew public interest at the time. Constantinople, the Ottoman capital now called Istanbul, was then a place of intense international attention, and the title points to that broader context rather than to a documented scene.
| 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 | 5,692 × 4,159 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13501 |
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