Murray St. fire, 2/19/15 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Murray St. fire, 2/19/15. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Murray St. fire, 2/19/15
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The record dates this view of a Murray Street fire to February 19, 1915, but the title comes from caption cards and negative sleeves written by the Bain News Service and has not been independently verified, so the exact street and city remain uncertain. The picture survives as a small glass negative, a format news photographers relied on before flexible film became standard. It dates from the years when American fire departments were shifting from horse-drawn wagons to motorized engines. Bain's agency sold photographs like this one to newspapers, which made its fire scenes a useful record of both the blaze and the equipment fighting it.
| Created / published | 2/19/15. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 4,154 × 5,741 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19709 |
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