Clearing away debris, Bangor fire – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Clearing away debris, Bangor fire in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Clearing away debris, Bangor fire
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This glass negative documents the cleanup after a fire in Bangor, with workers clearing debris from the site, a stage of the story that rarely gets the attention the blaze itself does. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption information that has not been verified, so the exact fire and year remain uncertain. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs in the early twentieth century. Images like this one show how a town rebuilt after a disaster, with piles of charred material and the labor of cleanup standing in for the drama of the fire itself.
| 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 | 5,810 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10410 |
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