In a coal mine – Antique 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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A window into the past: In a coal mine, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In a coal mine
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The record gives little beyond its title, "In a coal mine," and a note that the title comes from unverified caption data, so this glass negative is best understood through the collection it belongs to. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds some 40,000 negatives made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied press photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Its coal-mining images typically show miners, tools and working conditions in the period when American mines were heavily worked and dangerous. Because the date is unknown, the picture is best read as a glimpse of that industrial era rather than a documented moment.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,722 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11707 |
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