7th Ave. subway cave-in, 9/22/15 – 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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Step back in time with 7th Ave. subway cave-in, 9/22/15, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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7th Ave. subway cave-in, 9/22/15
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A street collapse on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, dated September 22, 1915, places this negative in the middle of New York's subway construction. Digging beneath crowded city streets was dangerous work, and cave-ins that swallowed pavement and snarled traffic were a recurring hazard as the city built its rapid transit lines. The Bain News Service, a commercial picture agency, sent photographers to record such events for newspapers, which gives the image the immediacy of a news picture. The title comes from the agency's own notes and has not been independently verified, so the exact location and circumstances should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | 9/22/15. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21200 |
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