Police Parade, New York – Historic 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Police Parade, New York in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Police Parade, New York
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Recorded as 5/9/08, probably May 9, 1908, this glass negative shows a police parade in New York. The title comes from caption cards and has not been independently verified, so the exact event and route remain uncertain. The plate belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photography agency that supplied pictures of city life to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one were the standard medium for press work of the period, prized for their sharp detail, and the plate itself shows as much about that technology as about the event.
| Created / published | 5/9/08. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,449 × 3,899 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1640 |
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