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Saving a life – Vintage Print

Saving a life, [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Saving a life, [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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 Saving a life in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Titled *Saving a life*, this glass negative records a rescue by rowboat at Coney Island, New York, where small boats were a common sight along the crowded summer beaches. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American places as postcards and booklets, made the image sometime between 1900 and 1905, when the resort was drawing large crowds and lifesaving was becoming an organized public concern. The company's dramatic, instructive subjects like this one were popular with buyers at the time. The negative was given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesLocale from negative D4-60021. Coney Island, N.Y. G 1063" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 060022. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLifesaving. Rowboats.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70735

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