Brighton Beach – 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.)
Description
Brighton Beach 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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Brighton Beach
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This glass negative is titled Brighton Beach, but the title comes from caption cards written by the Bain News Service and has not been independently verified, so the exact location is uncertain. The name most often refers to the seaside resort in Brooklyn, New York, next to Coney Island, which drew crowds to its beaches and boardwalk in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency whose pictures covered city life, news and leisure, so this view likely reflects that world of summer outings by the water. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working medium of the period, and their fine detail is worth a close look.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,828 × 3,302 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26096 |
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