[City children--in free bath at the Battery, New York City] – Antique Wall Art
![[City children--in free bath at the Battery, New York City], [between 1908 and 1916] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5c3cb8330c10-L.webp)
(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 [City children--in free bath at the Battery, New York City] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[City children--in free bath at the Battery, New York City]
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The picture shows children splashing at the free bath at the Battery, the park at the southern tip of Manhattan where the city ran public bathing for working-class families. In the early 1900s, New York's reformers pushed for municipal baths partly as a public health measure, since many tenement apartments had no private bathtubs. The summer crowds at such sites were a familiar sight in city newspapers. This print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose news photographs document everyday life in New York during these years.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1916] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1920. |
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection. |
| Subjects | Children swimming--New York (State)--New York--1900-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181423 |
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