Field Mass - B'k'n Navy Yard – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Field Mass - B'k'n Navy Yard in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Field Mass - B'k'n Navy Yard
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, the federal shipyard on the East River, is the setting named in this glass negative, which records an outdoor Mass held for sailors and yard workers. Open-air services like this were common at military installations, where a temporary altar and rows of uniformed men could gather outside rather than in a chapel. The negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The title was recorded by the agency and has not been independently verified, so the exact occasion and date remain uncertain.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11122 |
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