Agra -- Mosque near the Taj Mahal – Antique 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 Agra -- Mosque near the Taj Mahal 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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Agra -- Mosque near the Taj Mahal
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The record places this glass negative at Agra, India, and names a mosque set near the Taj Mahal as its subject, which tells us the camera was pointed away from the famous tomb toward one of the religious buildings that surround it. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose collection this belongs to, sold images of world sites to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, so the picture was likely made for a public eager to see distant monuments. The date is not recorded, and the attribution to Bain comes from the negative or its caption card rather than verified documentation, so the exact moment of exposure remains uncertain.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,923 × 6,429 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35136 |
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