Fire at Coney Island, 1911 – Antique 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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Fire at Coney Island, 1911
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A fire on the Brooklyn peninsula at Coney Island is the subject of this 1911 glass negative, one of many news views made by the Bain News Service. The resort's amusement grounds were crowded with wooden pavilions, rides and boardwalk structures, which made large blazes a recurring threat in the early 1900s. Bain's photographers covered such events for newspapers and illustrated weeklies, so the negative records the scene as a working news image. The title comes from caption data supplied by the Bain News Service and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,829 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10493 |
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