Filling balloon on Wanamaker's – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Filling balloon on Wanamaker's, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Filling balloon on Wanamaker's
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At Wanamaker's, the department store, a balloon is being filled, a scene that suggests the store was tied to a public event or promotion involving aviation. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with photographs of news, sports, and public spectacles in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information recorded by the agency that has not been independently verified. Glass negatives like this one hold fine detail, so the balloon and the equipment around it can be studied closely.
| 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 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11063 |
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