Preparing for Circus Week - Madison Sq. Garden – 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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Preparing for Circus Week - Madison Sq. Garden comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Preparing for Circus Week - Madison Sq. Garden
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The title places this glass negative at Madison Square Garden in New York, where the circus was a regular attraction in the early twentieth century. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news pictures issued by the Bain News Service, a photo agency active in New York in those years. The title is unverified and no date is recorded, so the exact occasion remains uncertain. Glass negatives like this one were a common way to make press photographs before roll film became widespread, and their large size preserved a good deal of fine detail.
| 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 | 5,723 × 4,198 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12848 |
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