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Plane shop – Vintage Wall Art

Plane shop, n/a — historic photograph
Plane shop, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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 Plane shop. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The title on this glass negative, Plane shop, suggests a workshop where planes were built or repaired, though the record does not say whether aircraft or carpenter's hand tools are meant, and the title is unverified. The image belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the files of a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives were the standard medium of press photographers of that era, and their sharp, documentary look is what made such archives useful to editors. No date or photographer is recorded, so the exact origin remains uncertain.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 six loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan4,885 × 3,384 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-26226

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