Harvard – 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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Harvard comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Little is recorded about this glass negative beyond its title, "Harvard," which the Bain News Service wrote on its caption card. The picture is one of the news photographs made by George Grantham Bain's agency, which supplied images to newspapers in the early twentieth century and built a large body of pictures of American cities and institutions. Harvard University, founded in 1636 in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, was a frequent subject for such pictures. Since the record gives no date or detail of the scene, the view itself is best read as a document of the agency's interest in the campus and its surroundings.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,204 × 5,741 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32427 |
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