Chihuahua Prison – Vintage 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
Step back in time with Chihuahua Prison, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chihuahua Prison
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The title Chihuahua Prison points to a jail in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, though the Bain News Service label is unverified and the negative carries no date. The Bain agency, founded in New York around 1899, sold news pictures to newspapers and covered Mexico during the 1910s, when Chihuahua was a major center of the Mexican Revolution. Without a confirmed date or photographer, the picture is best read as a record of a place of confinement made for a press market eager for images from the border region.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16950 |
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