Ship - bldg. – 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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Step back in time with Ship - bldg., 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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The record gives only the title "Ship - bldg.," so this glass negative most likely shows a vessel under construction, with its hull framing, staging, and yard workers at the building site. The title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service wrote, and the catalogers did not verify it, so the exact ship and location remain unknown. Bain's agency sold news photographs to newspapers in New York and beyond from about 1900 into the 1920s, and its shipyard views document the growth of American maritime industry in that period. Viewers should treat the subject as a probable reading of a short label rather than a confirmed identification.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,197 × 5,860 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27800 |
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