Packing for Christmas Ship – Vintage 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.)
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Step back in time with Packing for Christmas Ship, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Packing for Christmas Ship
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The title points to a Christmas ship, the kind of holiday voyage that carried gifts and cheer to sailors and to communities far from home, and this glass negative appears to show the work of loading one. The record gives no date or location, and the title comes from data supplied by the Bain News Service, so the specifics should be read with some caution. Founded in New York around 1899, the Bain agency sold news pictures to newspapers and magazines, and its negatives capture the busy, everyday side of the early twentieth century. Holiday shipments like this one were often photographed for publicity, which makes them useful for seeing how such charity was presented to the public.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,709 × 4,135 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18982 |
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