British Museum – 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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Step back in time with British Museum, 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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The subject here is the British Museum in London, the national museum founded in 1753 and housed since 1852 in its great Bloomsbury building, whose columned facade and domed reading room made it a landmark of the city. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of pictures made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date and its title is unverified, so the exact moment it was taken is uncertain, but the collection as a whole documents the news and public life of that era, and the museum's presence in the record reflects how widely its collections and building were known to readers abroad.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,090 × 4,777 px · prints to 14 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27272 |
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