Prize fire horses, 5/30/14 – 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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Prize fire horses, 5/30/14 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Prize fire horses, 5/30/14
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Fire horses competing for prizes are the subject here, with the date of May 30, 1914 taken from the caption data on the glass negative. By that year, motorized fire apparatus was spreading through American cities, and horses that had pulled engines and wagons for decades were being retired or reassigned, so a competition like this one captures a working life that was ending. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, made the negative, and the glass plate format of the period preserves fine detail in the harness and the animals' coats.
| Created / published | 5/30/14. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 1,077 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17387 |
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