Race - Olympic Games - 1912 – 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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Race - Olympic Games - 1912 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Race - Olympic Games - 1912
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Shot on a glass negative, this view is captioned as a race at the 1912 Olympic Games, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, that summer. Those Games were the fifth of the modern Olympics and were staged in a newly built stadium that drew wide attention. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines, and its caption was recorded without verification, so the specific event and athletes are not confirmed. The Bain negatives capture the daily work of a busy wire-photo operation, and this one offers a glimpse of early twentieth-century sport as it was reported to the public.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,767 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12481 |
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