Beggar - Peddler on Brdway – 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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Beggar - Peddler on Brdway comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Beggar - Peddler on Brdway
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The title pairs two roles, beggar and peddler, for a figure on Broadway, as the Bain News Service recorded it on the negative. That label is unverified, and the record gives no date. The agency worked in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, and its glass negatives document city life as it unfolded. Hawkers and the poor were a familiar presence on Manhattan's crowded sidewalks in those years, so the picture offers a glimpse of street-level commerce and hardship.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10991 |
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