Madison Sq. N.Y.C. – Historic Reproduction
(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 rare historic photograph captures Madison Sq. N.Y.C. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Madison Sq. N.Y.C.
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Madison Square, the park and intersection at Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in Manhattan, is the subject here, and the Bain News Service's own caption is the only source for the title, which the Library of Congress notes is unverified. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of roughly 40,000 glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of current events, streets and public places in New York from about 1900 to 1920. Glass negatives like this one were the standard medium of that era, and their sharp detail makes them valuable to historians of the city's streetscape.
| 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 | 5,754 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12425 |
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