American Firemen, Bassens – Historic Reproduction
(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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Its title places the picture at Bassens, a town on the Gironde estuary near Bordeaux in southwestern France, although the Bain News Service wrote that name on its negatives or caption cards and it has not been verified. The agency, founded in New York in 1899, supplied newspapers with news photographs, and glass negatives like this one were often made in small formats such as 5 by 7 inches. The record gives no date, so the picture is best read against the early twentieth century, when press photographers regularly turned to fire brigades and civic life as subjects.
| 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 | 4,166 × 5,753 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29400 |
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