Wrecked Pennsylvania R.R. car on tracks – 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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Step back in time with Wrecked Pennsylvania R.R. car on tracks, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wrecked Pennsylvania R.R. car on tracks
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A wrecked Pennsylvania Railroad car lies on the tracks in this glass negative, with its damage the clear focus of the frame. The record dates it to October 6, 1909, but that date and the title come from unverified notes made by the Bain News Service, the New York agency whose photographers supplied news pictures to newspapers. George Grantham Bain assembled the collection, and its glass plates show how railroad accidents were recorded in the early twentieth century, when trains were the main way Americans moved between cities.
| Created / published | 10/6/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,205 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5590 |
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