Women carrying baskets - Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York – 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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Women carrying baskets - Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York
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Women carrying baskets of food are the focus of this 1908 view of a Salvation Army Christmas dinner in New York. The Salvation Army had been doing relief work in the city since the 1880s, and holiday meals and provision baskets were among its best-known efforts to help families short on money. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, whose photographers recorded city life for newspapers of the period. The title comes from caption information recorded at the time and has not been independently verified, so it is best read as a general record of charitable holiday work in early twentieth-century New York.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,728 × 4,178 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4319 |
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