Marriage bureau – Antique 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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Step back in time with Marriage bureau, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Marriage bureau
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The title "Marriage bureau" is the only description this glass negative carries, and the record gives no date or location, so the caption itself is the agency's unverified label. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Such agencies often photographed offices, institutions and everyday city life, so a scene labeled as a marriage bureau likely shows a license or matchmaking office of that era. Viewers should treat the subject as a probable reading of the title rather than a confirmed fact.
| 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 | 4,897 × 3,366 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25414 |
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