Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing – 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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Step back in time with Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing
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Sing Sing, the state prison at Ossining, New York, is the setting here, and the title describes gunmen arriving there. The prison opened in 1828 and became one of the best-known penitentiaries in the country, so pictures of arrivals drew steady newspaper interest. Bain News Service, a New York picture agency active in the early twentieth century, supplied images like this to papers that favored crime stories. The record gives no date, and the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, so the identities and circumstances of the men shown remain uncertain.
| 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 | 5,710 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12379 |
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