Astor Market Flower Stand – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Astor Market Flower Stand. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Astor Market Flower Stand
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Few details survive about this flower stand, but the caption ties it to Astor Market, one of New York City's public markets, where vendors sold produce, flowers, and other goods to shoppers in the early twentieth century. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers and magazines, mostly from about 1900 to 1920. The title comes from the agency's own notes and has not been independently verified, so the scene is best read as a window onto everyday city commerce of the period.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,321 × 4,878 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21400 |
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