Chinese School Children - Central Park – 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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A window into the past: Chinese School Children - Central Park, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Chinese School Children - Central Park
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The record names Chinese school children in Central Park, but the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the school, the group, and the occasion remain unknown. Bain was a New York picture agency that supplied photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and its negatives document everyday city life, including streets, parks, and schools. At a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act restricted Chinese immigration, pictures of children from New York's Chinese community in a public park offer a glimpse of family life that written sources often overlooked. The small glass negative format also captured fine outdoor detail.
| 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 | 5,710 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14056 |
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