Epsom Race Track, England – 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
This rare historic photograph captures Epsom Race Track, England in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Epsom Race Track, England
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Epsom Downs, in Surrey, is the grassy racecourse best known as the home of the Derby, first run there in 1780 and still one of England's most famous flat races. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of pictures made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied images to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record notes that the title comes from unverified caption information, so the exact date and occasion are uncertain. Still, the picture is a useful glimpse of how a British racing venue was documented for an American audience of that era.
| 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 | 951 × 712 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9480 |
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