Reid Funeral – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Reid Funeral. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Reid Funeral
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The record is titled "Reid Funeral," but it gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards the Bain News Service wrote without verification, so the people and occasion remain uncertain. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s, and its work often recorded public figures, street life and ceremonies of the period. Funeral photographs from that era typically show mourners, floral tributes and processions, and they document how families and communities marked a death in public. Glass negatives like this one were the standard medium for newsroom photography before roll film became common, so the plate is worth noticing for its material as well as its subject.
| 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 | 5,785 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12863 |
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