1915 -- Astor Cup race – 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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1915 -- Astor Cup race comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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1915 -- Astor Cup race
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The negative records the 1915 Astor Cup race, a sporting contest named for its trophy. It is a glass plate from the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, which supplied pictures of current events to newspapers. The title comes from caption cards and has not been independently verified, so details of the course, the competitors, and the results are best checked against period newspapers. Even so, the plate shows how quickly news photography was moving from the sporting field to the printed page in the mid-1910s.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21300 |
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