Sailors on Christmas shore leave – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Sailors on Christmas shore leave, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sailors on Christmas shore leave
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Sailors on Christmas shore leave is the subject here, a scene of uniformed men off their ship for the holiday. The negative is a glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives the date as 12/13/09, but the title comes from unverified caption data the agency wrote on its negatives, so the exact place and circumstances are best taken as the agency recorded them. Glass plates like this one were the everyday working medium of press photography before roll film became standard, and they show how quickly pictures of ordinary holiday life could reach print.
| Created / published | 12/13/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,853 × 4,260 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5683 |
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