International Bridge from Juarez to El Paso – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of International Bridge from Juarez to El Paso. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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International Bridge from Juarez to El Paso
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Few crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border carried more traffic than the International Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The record dates the negative to 1909, a year when the border cities drew national attention, as President William Howard Taft and Mexican President Porfirio Díaz met nearby that October. The title comes from Bain News Service caption data that has not been independently verified. Based in New York, the Bain agency sold news pictures like this one to newspapers, so the image offers a glimpse of a busy commercial link in the late Díaz era.
| Created / published | 10/12/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,847 × 4,248 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5558 |
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