Horse Show - Long Branch – 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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Horse Show - Long Branch comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Horse Show - Long Branch
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Long Branch, the seaside resort town on the New Jersey coast, gives this glass negative its title, which the Bain News Service recorded as a horse show. The town drew wealthy summer visitors for decades, and its social calendar included equestrian events that brought riders, grooms and spectators to the grounds. George Grantham Bain's agency, a New York news photography business in the early twentieth century, sold pictures like this one to newspapers, so the image shows a fashionable crowd and the animals at the center of the competition. The date is not recorded, and the title comes from Bain's own unverified data, so the scene is best read as a typical seasonal gathering of that era.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,058 × 774 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14920 |
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