The Big Hand-Out Hobo Convention, Cincinnati – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Big Hand-Out Hobo Convention, Cincinnati. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Big Hand-Out Hobo Convention, Cincinnati
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Few pictures in the Bain collection show a gathering of itinerant men as directly as this one from Cincinnati, whose title, *The Big Hand-Out*, points to the handouts that drifting workers often sought. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain, sold images of current events to newspapers, and its glass negatives document a period when rail-riding laborers were a familiar sight in American cities. The date is not recorded, and the title comes from information the agency wrote on the negative or its caption card, so it should be read as provisional. The scene still offers a useful view of the migration and labor patterns that shaped urban life at the time.
| 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 | 5,735 × 4,310 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11350 |
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