Cell -- Sing Sing – Antique Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Cell -- Sing Sing in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cell -- Sing Sing
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Few American prisons are as widely known as Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, and this glass negative turns that reputation toward its most confined space, a single cell. The Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from the early 1900s into the 1920s, documented institutions and news events around New York, and its negatives carried captions written quickly by staff. The record's title is unverified, so the exact date and the cell's occupant are not known here. The picture still offers a direct look at the cramped, utilitarian conditions of early twentieth-century prison life.
| 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 | 4,247 × 5,785 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19181 |
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