Unidentified children & women – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Unidentified children & women, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Unidentified children & women
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The subjects of this glass negative are unidentified, and the record gives no date or location, so the picture's exact origin remains uncertain. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of negatives from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Photographs like this one were often taken quickly for daily publication, so they capture ordinary street, home, or public scenes of their time. Because the sitters are not named, the image is most useful as a glimpse of everyday life in the period, with its clothing and setting offering clues to when it was made.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,903 × 3,315 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27887 |
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