N.Y. schools opening – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures N.Y. schools opening in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Bain News Service, run by photographer George Grantham Bain in New York from the early 1900s, sent staff photographers out to cover the city's daily news, and this glass negative is one of its records of a school opening. The catalog gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that the service's own data may not have verified, so the exact year and school remain uncertain. Still, the subject places it in an era when New York was expanding its public education system to serve a rapidly growing population, and the wet-plate-era glass format itself is worth noticing for how it captured the city's routine civic life.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,773 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15430 |
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