Mexico - special train sent for body of De Las Rias – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Mexico - special train sent for body of De Las Rias in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mexico - special train sent for body of De Las Rias
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A special train sent to carry a body is the event this glass negative records, with the deceased identified only as De Las Rias. The Bain News Service, a commercial agency that sold news pictures to newspapers, made the plate, and the title comes from its caption cards, which the Library of Congress describes as unverified. Pictures like this belong to Mexico's turbulent 1910s, when railroads were often the most dependable link between distant cities, and the undated plate is best read within that period.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,185 × 5,748 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11454 |
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