Fire station in Battery, N.Y. – 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 Fire station in Battery, N.Y. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fire station in Battery, N.Y.
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The setting is the Battery, the park at the southern tip of Manhattan, though that location rests on caption data the Bain News Service recorded without verification. The agency photographed New York streets, waterfronts and civic life in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives document a period when firefighting moved from horse-drawn equipment to motor apparatus. The exposure is undated, so the exact year is unknown, but the engines and station architecture are worth studying for what they show about that transition.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10313 |
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