Convention crowd - Chicago – 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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Step back in time with Convention crowd - Chicago, 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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Convention crowd - Chicago
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A crowd gathered in Chicago is the subject here, though the record does not say which convention or event drew them, so the title itself should be read with caution. Chicago hosted many national political conventions and large public gatherings from the late 1800s onward, and crowd pictures from those years often show delegates, supporters, and spectators packed into halls, streets, or hotel lobbies. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made from a glass negative. Bain News Service, which operated in New York in the early 1900s, sold news photographs to newspapers, so pictures like this one were taken to document events for a fast-moving press.
| 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 | 5,747 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11825 |
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