Handling Crowds on Brdway – Historic Print
(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 Handling Crowds on Brdway, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Handling Crowds on Brdway
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Broadway, the long avenue that runs through Manhattan's theater district, is the setting here, and the title points to crowds being managed along its busy stretch. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption information, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Still, the subject reflects a common problem of the period, when growing city streets and public gatherings required police and onlookers to be handled in ways that appear in many of the agency's pictures.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,865 × 3,284 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25591 |
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