Children with tricycles, playing in street, New York – Vintage Photo 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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A window into the past: Children with tricycles, playing in street, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Children with tricycles, playing in street, New York
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Children on tricycles ride along a city street in this glass negative, a common sight in crowded neighborhoods where pavement was often the only open space for play. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, supplied newspapers and magazines with thousands of images like this in the early twentieth century. The record dates the negative to April 2, 1909, but the title comes from caption information the agency wrote and has not been independently verified. Glass plates such as this one preserve the street life of that period, before the playground movement gave city children more organized places to play.
| Created / published | 4/2/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,804 × 4,248 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4477 |
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