Guadalajara – 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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A window into the past: Guadalajara, 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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Guadalajara
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Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco in west-central Mexico, is the subject named in this glass negative, which belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's News Service, a Manhattan agency that sold pictures to newspapers from the early 1900s through the 1920s, produced negatives like this one, and its caption cards often identified places from their own sources rather than from a verified record. The exact date and photographer are not recorded, so the scene itself is the main guide. Guadalajara was among Mexico's largest and most important cities in this period, and images from it help show how the city looked to American editors and readers of the day.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11450 |
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