Reviewing group on New York fire boat, New York – 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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Reviewing group on New York fire boat, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Reviewing group on New York fire boat, New York
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Aboard a New York fire boat, a reviewing group is the subject here, which suggests an official inspection or visit rather than routine work on the water. In the early twentieth century, fireboats were a central part of the city's waterfront protection, pumping water onto piers and ships when land-based engines could not reach them. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of glass negatives from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines. The record gives no date, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion is uncertain.
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1786 |
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