Riverside Drive Illuminated – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Riverside Drive Illuminated. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Riverside Drive Illuminated
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Riverside Drive, the boulevard that follows the Hudson River along Manhattan's Upper West Side, is the subject here, and the title points to a view of it at night with its lights on. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s. The title came from the agency's notes on the negative or caption card and has not been independently verified, so the exact date and occasion remain uncertain. Even so, the scene reflects a period when electric lighting was changing city streets after dark.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,829 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40593 |
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