OSCAR II – 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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OSCAR II comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The name on this glass negative, Oscar II, points to a steamship, and the Bain News Service likely photographed it as a newsworthy vessel arriving at or leaving a New York pier. Oscar II belonged to the Scandinavian-American Line, which carried emigrants and travelers between Scandinavia and the United States in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service, a press photo agency active in New York from about 1900 to the 1920s, made pictures like this for newspapers that covered shipping, immigration and transatlantic travel. The record gives no date, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion is uncertain.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,328 × 4,915 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21801 |
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