Toy yacht, Central Park – Historic 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.)
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Step back in time with Toy yacht, Central Park, 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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Toy yacht, Central Park
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A model sailboat rather than a full-size vessel is the subject here, photographed in Central Park, which places the scene in the sailing pond that has long drawn children and hobbyists to the park's southern end. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency active in the early 1900s that supplied images to newspapers. The record gives no exact date, but the negative format and the agency's output place it in that era, when city parks were popular places for leisure and model boating. The caption details are unverified, so the toy's maker and owner remain unknown.
| 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 | 4,223 × 5,810 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20206 |
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