Java -- shipping Plumbago – Antique 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.)
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A window into the past: Java -- shipping Plumbago, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Java -- shipping Plumbago
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The caption names Java and a cargo of plumbago, a term that in older usage often meant graphite, though the title comes from unverified Bain caption data and the date is not recorded. Bain News Service, founded in New York by George Grantham Bain around 1899, sold news photographs of ships, ports and commerce to newspapers, and its glass negatives document the trade that linked Java and the wider Dutch East Indies to Western markets. Worth noticing is how a plain commodity caption turns a small glass plate into a record of ordinary cargo work along the waterfront.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,129 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32140 |
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