Fire Chief, Coker, New York – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Fire Chief, Coker, New York. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fire Chief, Coker, New York
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A fire chief is the subject of this glass negative, and the title places him in Coker, New York, though the record gives no date. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds news photographs from the Bain News Service, which supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The place and name come from caption data the service itself marked as unverified, so some details remain uncertain. Fire chiefs of that era often led volunteer or small-town companies, and portraits like this one recorded the local men who answered alarms with hand-pumped and horse-drawn equipment.
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1466 |
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