Plaza Hotel - Gates Funeral – 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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Plaza Hotel - Gates Funeral
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The record names the Plaza Hotel, the Fifth Avenue landmark at Central Park South that opened in 1907, as the setting, with a funeral connected to it. The date is not recorded, and the title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its card, which the Library of Congress has not verified, so the specific occasion remains uncertain. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain around 1899 that sold news pictures to newspapers, and its glass negatives capture New York street life, society events, and public ceremonies in the early twentieth century. Viewers may find the scene useful for seeing how the Plaza's grand public spaces were used for gatherings of the city's wealthy and prominent residents.
| 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 | 5,723 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10993 |
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