Piping rock – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures Piping rock in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The title names a place, Piping Rock, though the record notes that the Bain News Service caption supplying it is unverified. The name is best known in connection with Locust Valley on Long Island's North Shore, where the Piping Rock Club became a center of country-club sport and society in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency whose glass negatives, mostly made from about 1900 to the 1920s, recorded news, public figures and scenes for newspapers. This record gives no date, so the moment of exposure is uncertain, but it belongs to a body of press photography that documents how such places were pictured for a wide public.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,815 × 3,297 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28801 |
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