IMPERATOR – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: IMPERATOR, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title on this glass negative, IMPERATOR, most likely refers to the ocean liner *Imperator*, which the Hamburg America Line launched in 1912 as the largest ship afloat at the time. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, photographed the city's waterfront and arriving vessels through the 1910s and 1920s, so a view of the ship would fit its usual subjects. The record gives no date or photographer, and the title is unverified, so the link to the liner rests on the name alone.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,654 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14597 |
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