Unidentified man and woman riding in back of car – 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.)
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Step back in time with Unidentified man and woman riding in back of car, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Unidentified man and woman riding in back of car
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Two passengers sit in the back of an open automobile, but neither the man nor the woman has been identified, and the record gives no date or location. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency founded in 1899 that sold news pictures to newspapers across the country. Bain's photographers covered politics, sports, disasters and everyday city life, and their plates were typically sent out quickly for publication. Glass plates of this kind were the standard working medium of news photography in the early decades of the twentieth century, so the picture offers a glimpse of how motoring and casual travel looked in that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title devised. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,286 × 4,251 px · prints to 21 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40950 |
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