Salvation Army Christmas dinner, crowd waiting at basket distribution window, New York – Antique 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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Salvation Army Christmas dinner, crowd waiting at basket distribution window, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Salvation Army Christmas dinner, crowd waiting at basket distribution window, New York
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A crowd of people waits at a window where Salvation Army workers handed out food baskets during a Christmas dinner effort in New York in 1908. The Salvation Army, founded in London in 1865 and active in the United States from 1880, ran holiday meals and relief for the city's poor, and by the early 1900s such distributions were a familiar winter sight in American cities. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo service that supplied pictures to newspapers. The title was taken from data recorded with the negative and has not been independently verified, so the exact location and date should be read with that caveat.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4316 |
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