Firemen overcome -- subway fire, 1/15 – 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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Firemen overcome -- subway fire, 1/15 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Firemen overcome -- subway fire, 1/15
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Firemen overcome by smoke during a subway fire is the subject here, a scene that shows how quickly smoke could fill an underground tunnel and how hard rescue work was in such a space. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain, sold pictures of current events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so images like this were made to be reproduced fast. The record gives only "1/15" as the date, and the title comes from unverified notes made by the agency, so the year and exact location remain uncertain. New York's subway was itself new in this period, which made underground fires a serious concern for the city's fire companies.
| Created / published | 1/15. |
|---|---|
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19350 |
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