Guarding Assay Office Entrance, Wall St. – Vintage 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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Guarding Assay Office Entrance, Wall St. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Guarding Assay Office Entrance, Wall St.
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Armed guards stand at the entrance of the assay office on Wall Street, a reminder of how much precious metal passed through the financial district. Assay offices tested and certified the purity of gold and silver bullion, so their doorways were natural places for security. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs from roughly the 1900s through the 1920s. The record gives no exact date, and the title is catalogued from unverified information, so the scene is best read as a view of early twentieth-century New York security.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,321 × 4,834 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32520 |
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