Plane shop, College Point – 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.)
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This historic photograph of Plane shop, College Point brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Plane shop, College Point
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Few details survive for this view of a plane shop in College Point, a waterfront neighborhood on the north shore of Queens in New York City. The Bain News Service, a commercial picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, made the glass negative, and its caption data gives the place name but no firm date. Aviation was new and drew public attention in those years, and small repair and building shops like this one were where early airplanes were assembled, fixed and tested. The title comes from unverified agency data, so the exact business and year remain open.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,897 × 3,397 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26218 |
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