Missouri Athletic Club Fire – Historic Reproduction
(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: Missouri Athletic Club Fire, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Missouri Athletic Club Fire
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The subject is a fire at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis, a private social club whose clubhouse was a well-known gathering place for the city's business and civic men. Fires in large downtown buildings of that era drew intense press coverage, and a news photograph of the damage gave readers a direct view of the wreckage. The title comes from caption information written by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, and the record does not give a date, so the exact year is unconfirmed. This glass negative is one of the many Bain images that now survive as a record of early twentieth-century news events.
| 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 | 4,260 × 5,841 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16830 |
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