Aviators on Cunard Pier – 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
A window into the past: Aviators on Cunard Pier, 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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Aviators on Cunard Pier
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Aviators gathered on a Cunard pier suggests a moment when flight and transatlantic travel were both news, since Cunard's liners carried passengers between New York and Britain. The record gives no date or individual names, and its title comes from unverified caption information that the Bain News Service attached to the negatives. The Bain agency, active in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, sold pictures of current events to newspapers, so its images often capture crowds, arrivals and departures. The glass negative format also preserves fine detail in faces and clothing, which helps show the leather coats, caps and goggles associated with early aviators.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,910 × 3,321 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29170 |
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