Crowd in front of White Star offices – 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.)
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Step back in time with Crowd in front of White Star offices, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Crowd in front of White Star offices
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The crowd stands before the offices of the White Star Line, the British steamship company that carried passengers across the Atlantic, so the building is what marks this scene out. Bain News Service, the New York photo agency that made the glass negative, recorded street life and public gatherings like this one in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the occasion is unknown, but shipping offices of that era often drew crowds of relatives, curious onlookers, and reporters, especially around sailings or disasters when people pressed in for news of passengers.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11594 |
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