Taking bodies from LADY GREY – Antique 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
A window into the past: Taking bodies from LADY GREY, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Taking bodies from LADY GREY
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The caption links this scene to the Lady gray and describes bodies being taken from it, which points to a shipwreck or similar disaster, though the record does not confirm the vessel or the event. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, built from the work of Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of news events, disasters and public figures in the early 1900s. Its photographers often worked on deadline, and their captions were sometimes incomplete or mistaken, so the title is best read as a lead for further research rather than settled fact.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,734 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17410 |
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