Benton, Cin., 7/23 – 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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Benton, Cin., 7/23 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Benton, Cin., 7/23
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The caption reads "Benton, Cin.," with the abbreviation most likely standing for Cincinnati, Ohio, though the record does not confirm the location. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, wrote the label from notes it did not verify. Glass negatives like this one were the standard medium for press photography of that era, valued for their fine detail. With no year or subject recorded, the picture is best read as a glimpse of everyday scenes in the area during that period.
| Created / published | 7/23. |
|---|---|
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 2,927 × 4,290 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37351 |
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