The Postman's Xmas – Historic Reproduction
(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
This rare historic photograph captures The Postman's Xmas in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Postman's Xmas
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The title, "The Postman's Xmas," points to a holiday scene built around a letter carrier, though the record does not confirm who appears in it or where it was taken, and the title itself comes from unverified information supplied by the Bain News Service. The picture is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of work from a New York news photo service that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Holiday and everyday street scenes like this one were a common subject for such services, which sought images that could fill a page with a human touch. Its date is not recorded, so its place in that period can only be inferred from the medium and the collection.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10114 |
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