N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport J.J. Astor & party – Antique 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 N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport J.J. Astor & party, 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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N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport J.J. Astor & party
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This glass negative records a landing at Newport, Rhode Island, where the New York Yacht Club maintained a station for members arriving by water, here identified as J.J. Astor and his party. Newport was the fashionable summer colony of wealthy New York families in this era, and the club's landing was a social stage where guests were met and escorted from boats to shore. The Bain News Service, which made and captioned the negative, sold news and feature pictures to newspapers, so the image reflects the press interest in society figures at play. The record gives no date, and the caption is unverified, so the exact occasion is best read as an early twentieth-century summer scene.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,285 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10922 |
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