Making Xmas Toys – Antique 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: Making Xmas Toys, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Making Xmas Toys
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The title, *Making Xmas Toys*, points to a holiday workshop, though the record gives no date, place or names, and the wording comes from unverified caption data. The Bain News Service, run by George Grantham Bain in New York, sent photographers out to cover city life and work from about 1899 into the 1930s. Seasonal toymaking was a busy trade in that period, with workers often producing goods through the autumn for the holiday market. Read the picture as a general glimpse of that practice rather than a documented account of one shop.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11481 |
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