N.Y. Public Library on opening day – Antique Wall Art
(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 N.Y. Public Library on opening day, 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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N.Y. Public Library on opening day
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The title places this glass negative on the opening day of the New York Public Library, whose Beaux-Arts central building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street opened to the public in May 1911. Its marble facade and flanking stone lions made it one of the largest public building projects of its era, meant to put a vast research collection within reach of ordinary readers. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers. The title comes from caption information that has not been independently verified.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,810 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10726 |
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