Jap. school girls -- race – 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
A window into the past: Jap. school girls -- race, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jap. school girls -- race
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The title on this glass negative, "Jap. school girls -- race," is a caption the Bain News Service recorded, and the record marks it as unverified, so the picture's exact setting and date remain unknown. The abbreviation reflects how Japanese people were routinely described in American captions of the early twentieth century, a usage now recognized as derogatory. George Grantham Bain founded his New York photo service in 1899, and its images of people, events and everyday scenes were supplied to newspapers and magazines through the 1910s. The label is worth reading as evidence of how the agency catalogued its work, and the subject itself is a group of schoolgirls at a race.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,876 × 6,419 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34180 |
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