Crowd watching City Hall clock, Munich – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Crowd watching City Hall clock, Munich, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crowd watching City Hall clock, Munich
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Crowds gathering beneath the clock tower of Munich's New City Hall on the Marienplatz have long turned the hour into a small public ceremony, and this negative captures that habit of waiting. The tower's Glockenspiel, installed in the early twentieth century, sets its carved figures turning and dancing when the bells sound, drawing visitors who stand shoulder to shoulder in the square below. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, produced and distributed images like this one, and the title identifying the scene came from the agency's own notes and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Nitrate 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,434 × 5,009 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28310 |
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