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Taking home baskets, Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York – Vintage Wall Art

Taking home baskets, Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York, 1908 — historic photograph
Taking home baskets, Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York, 1908. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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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Taking home baskets, Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York

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Baskets of food going home with them mark this 1908 scene of a Salvation Army Christmas dinner in New York, a detail that shows the charity sending people off with supplies as well as feeding them on site. The Salvation Army, founded in London in 1865, ran holiday meals in American cities to help poor families through the winter. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photography service that sold images to newspapers, so it was taken to document a public charity event of its day. The title comes from caption data the agency recorded and has not been independently verified.

Created / published1908
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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 one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,697 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-4318

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