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City Hall, N.Y. on fire – Antique Print

City Hall, N.Y. on fire, n/a — historic photograph
City Hall, N.Y. on fire, n/a. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines collection.

(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 City Hall, N.Y. on fire. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The title on this glass negative names New York's City Hall on fire, though the Bain News Service notes that supplied it are unverified, so the exact date and cause of the blaze are not recorded here. Bain was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives document the city's public life and emergencies of that era. City Hall, the seat of municipal government, would have drawn intense public and press attention whenever it was threatened. Its place in this gallery reflects the firefighting theme that runs through the collection.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 five loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan3,328 × 4,897 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-25615

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