Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library
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A car identified in its title as Taft's is shown leaving the New York Public Library, a detail that sets this view apart from other Bain pictures of city buildings. The title comes from data the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or its caption card, and it has not been independently verified, so the passenger and the occasion remain uncertain. George Grantham Bain's agency supplied news photographs to New York newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives record the city's streets, public buildings and visiting figures. With no date in the record, the picture is best read as a glimpse of that busy period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,716 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10725 |
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