Ho Kom Tong – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Ho Kom Tong. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ho Kom Tong
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Ho Kom Tong is the name the Bain News Service gave this negative, and the record marks it as unverified, so the title is the only firm identifier we have. The name suggests a Chinese association or meeting hall, a type of institution that was central to community life in Chinese American neighborhoods during the early twentieth century. Bain News Service, a Manhattan-based press agency, supplied photographs to newspapers from about 1899 to the early 1930s, and its pictures of urban street life and civic institutions are a valuable record of that period. Viewers interested in this image should check the Bain caption cards and the Library of Congress catalog for any later corrections to the name and date.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 2,940 × 4,277 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38358 |
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