M. Howlett and Mrs. Ralph Sanger on street, New York – Vintage Photo 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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A window into the past: M. Howlett and Mrs. Ralph Sanger on street, New York, 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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M. Howlett and Mrs. Ralph Sanger on street, New York
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Two people, identified in the record as M. Howlett and Mrs. Ralph Sanger, appear on a New York street in a picture dated 4/09, most likely April 1909. The names come from caption cards and negative notes made by the Bain News Service, so they have not been independently verified. Bain's agency supplied news and feature photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives record the everyday street life of the period. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium for press photographers of the time, which makes the image a useful glimpse of how New York's sidewalks looked before hand-held cameras became common.
| Created / published | 4/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,242 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4547 |
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