Playgrnd. Dances, 9/6/15 – 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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A window into the past: Playgrnd. Dances, 9/6/15, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Playgrnd. Dances, 9/6/15
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A playground and a dance, dated September 6, 1915, are the particulars this negative records, though the title comes from caption information that the Bain News Service wrote on the original cards and has not been independently verified. The Bain agency, based in New York, sold news photographs to newspapers, and its glass plates capture the city's everyday public life in the years before the United States entered the First World War. In the 1910s, many cities built supervised playgrounds as part of the wider recreation movement, which saw organized play and dancing as a way to keep children and young people occupied and healthy. The plate's small format and glass base make it a useful document of that period's street-level photography.
| Created / published | 9/6/15. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 4,922 × 3,359 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21110 |
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