Long Beach picnicers – 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
A window into the past: Long Beach picnicers, 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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Long Beach picnicers
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Picnicking at Long Beach is the subject of this glass negative, which shows people gathering for an outing by the water. The record does not say which Long Beach is meant or when the photograph was taken. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of news photographs from the Bain News Service, which operated in New York in the early twentieth century. Beach outings like this were a popular way for city families to spend free time in that period, so the scene offers a useful glimpse of everyday recreation. The glass negative format also places the image among the older photographic processes in the collection.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,359 × 4,834 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26734 |
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