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Men holding banner of N.Y. Fire Dept., New York – Historic Reproduction

Men holding banner of N.Y. Fire Dept., New York, Oct. 1908. — historic photograph
Men holding banner of N.Y. Fire Dept., New York, Oct. 1908.. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines 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 Men holding banner of N.Y. Fire Dept., New York in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Men holding banner of N.Y. Fire Dept., New York

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A banner bearing the New York Fire Department's name is the focus of this October 1908 scene, held up by a group of men whose identities the record does not give. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Its title comes from the agency's own caption data, which the Library of Congress lists as unverified, so the event behind the banner is not confirmed. Fire companies of that era often carried banners at parades, funerals and firefighter gatherings, which makes this a useful glimpse of how the department presented itself to the public.

Created / publishedOct. 1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,903 × 4,372 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-3649

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