VIRGINIA sailing for Mexico – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: VIRGINIA sailing for Mexico, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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VIRGINIA sailing for Mexico
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Few details survive for this view of a vessel titled *Virginia* sailing for Mexico. The title comes from notes written by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose glass negatives were captioned with information that was not always verified, so the ship's identity and departure should be treated as provisional. The Bain Collection as a whole dates mostly from the early twentieth century, when steamships carried passengers, freight, and news between American ports and Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts. Anyone researching the ship should check period shipping registers for the *Virginia*'s routes and owners.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17271 |
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