New Year's Day in Chinatown, N.Y.C – Historic Reproduction
(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: New Year's Day in Chinatown, N.Y.C, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New Year's Day in Chinatown, N.Y.C
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Lower Manhattan's Chinatown is the setting here, and the title points to New Year's Day, though the record gives no exact date and the title itself is unverified. The picture survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, a large format that press and commercial photographers favored in the early twentieth century for its sharp detail. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied images to newspapers and magazines. Glass negatives like this one offer a useful look at the neighborhood's streets and public life of that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| 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 | 7,049 × 5,490 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2575 |
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