Olympic – 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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This historic photograph of Olympic brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The only identifying detail in this record is its title, "Olympic," which the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or its caption card, though the cataloguers note that the title is unverified. The name could point to the Olympic Games or to the liner *Olympic*, but the record does not say which, so the subject should be read with caution. The picture survives as a small glass negative, a format that the New York agency run by George Grantham Bain used heavily in the early twentieth century to supply newspapers with news photographs. Those negatives are valuable for showing how quickly such agencies gathered and transmitted images of current events.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10604 |
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