Raising Xmas fund for Salvation Army – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Raising Xmas fund for Salvation Army. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Raising Xmas fund for Salvation Army
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Salvation Army volunteers collecting for the Christmas fund is the subject here, a seasonal fundraising scene of the sort the Salvation Army has relied on since the 1890s, when its kettles and street appeals became a familiar part of American holidays. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the glass negatives of the Bain News Service, a wire-photo agency that sent pictures of news, public life and ordinary city scenes to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date or location, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact street and year remain unknown. The image still shows how charity drives were staged for the press in that era.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,810 × 4,198 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11264 |
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