Making toys, Ger. – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Making toys, Ger. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Making toys, Ger.
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The caption points to toy making in Germany, a trade long tied to village workshops in regions such as the Thuringian Forest and the Erzgebirge, where craftsmen produced wooden toys for sale at home and abroad. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, distributed pictures like this one, and its glass negatives later came to the Library of Congress. The record gives no date or workshop name, and the title comes from unverified notes on the negative or caption card, so the exact place and year remain 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 | 5,798 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24090 |
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