F.A. Mullen - diving – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of F.A. Mullen - diving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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F.A. Mullen - diving
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The caption credits F.A. Mullen and gives the subject simply as diving, but the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the exact site and date remain uncertain. George Grantham Bain founded the Bain News Service in New York around 1899, and it supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines for decades. Its glass negatives document sporting, public and street life in the early twentieth century. Diving was a popular spectator sport and exhibition act in that period, drawing crowds to pools, beaches and water carnivals. Readers hoping to date this frame may find useful clues in neighboring Bain negatives on the same subject.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15407 |
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