Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York
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Union Square in Manhattan, a busy crossroads of pedestrians and traffic, is the setting for this glass negative of people buying Easter flowers. The record dates it to April 19, 1908, one week after Easter that year, which fell on April 12. Scenes like this were typical of the Bain News Service, the photo agency run by George Grantham Bain that supplied pictures of everyday city life to newspapers. The title comes from unverified information written on the negatives or caption cards, so details of the scene should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | 4/19/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,797 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1538 |
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