Curb Market, N.Y. – 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.)
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This historic photograph of Curb Market, N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Curb Market, N.Y.
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Few places in lower Manhattan were as noisy as the Curb Market, where brokers who did not trade on the main exchange dealt in securities outdoors along the curb, which gave the market its name. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negative, so the exact scene is unconfirmed. The Bain agency, founded by George Grantham Bain, supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its pictures of city streets and crowds remain a useful record of how New Yorkers worked.
| 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 | 3,377 × 4,922 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24716 |
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