Putting statues on public library – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Putting statues on public library
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Statues being set on a public library's exterior is the particular event recorded here, a civic moment that would have drawn interest from both passersby and press photographers. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied photographs to newspapers and magazines, made this glass negative, probably in the early twentieth century. Its date and exact location are not recorded, and the title comes from unverified caption data. Many libraries of that era were built with sculpture as public decoration, so an installation like this was a fitting subject for a news photographer.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,284 × 4,859 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21940 |
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