Repairing Belgian Rd. – 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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This historic photograph of Repairing Belgian Rd. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Repairing Belgian Rd.
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The title names a stretch called Belgian Rd. and shows the work under way there, which is repair. That name is unverified, since it comes from caption information the Bain News Service attached to its negatives, so the exact place and date remain uncertain. Roads paved with Belgian block, a rough granite paving stone, were common in American cities from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, and they needed frequent patching and relaying as traffic wore them down. Bain News Service, a New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain, supplied news photographs to newspapers, which makes this a useful record of everyday street upkeep.
| 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 | 5,729 × 4,135 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29160 |
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