Wheatley Hills – 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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Wheatley Hills 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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The title *Wheatley Hills* points to a residential district on Long Island in Nassau County, New York, though the record notes that the name comes from unverified Bain News Service caption data, so the exact scene is uncertain. George Grantham Bain founded his news photo service in New York around 1899, supplying newspapers with pictures of events, streets, and people, and its negatives were often labeled with brief place names. With no date or photographer recorded, this glass negative is best read as a document of suburban development on the island in the early twentieth century, when estates and new houses were spreading across the area.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17450 |
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