Marriage License Bureau – 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 Marriage License Bureau, 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 Bain collection holds many pictures of city offices, but this one shows a marriage license bureau, a place where couples went for the legal paperwork before a wedding. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers and magazines in the early 1900s, often recorded everyday civic life like this. The record gives no date and its title comes from unverified caption information, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of routine government business during the agency's active years. Its large glass negative was the standard working format of press photographers of that time.
| 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 | 4,890 × 3,391 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25413 |
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