SNAPPER & STINGRAY – Vintage 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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A window into the past: SNAPPER & STINGRAY, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title names a snapper and a stingray, which points to a catch, a fish market, or a seaside scene, though the record does not say which. The negative is a glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a commercial picture agency that supplied news and feature photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. No date is recorded, and the agency's title has not been verified, so the subject is best read as a glimpse of everyday life in the period.
| 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 | 5,829 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11220 |
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