N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport – Antique Print
(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: N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport
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The caption ties this view to the landing used by the New York Yacht Club at Newport, Rhode Island, though the record notes that the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data. Newport became a summer playground for wealthy New Yorkers in the late nineteenth century, and the club's members came there to race and socialize, with yachts moored off the waterfront and boats ferrying passengers to shore. The Bain News Service, a commercial press agency active in the early twentieth century, made pictures like this one for newspapers and magazines, so the glass negative records how the Gilded Age yachting scene was documented for a wide audience.
| 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 | 5,823 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10921 |
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