Christmas, Show Window – Historic Print
(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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Christmas, Show Window comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christmas, Show Window
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Glass-plate negatives like this one, from the Bain News Service, usually date from the early 1900s, when the company supplied news pictures to American newspapers. The title points to a holiday display behind a shop window, a sight that drew crowds in larger American cities each December. Store windows were then a major form of advertising, and merchants competed to build elaborate scenes of toys, decorations, and seasonal goods. The record does not give a date or location, and the title comes from unverified notes made by the news service, so the exact store and year remain unknown.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,122 × 5,778 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10586 |
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