Barnard Girls – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Barnard Girls, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Barnard Girls
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Barnard Girls" points to the students of Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University in Manhattan, founded in 1889. The title comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, but the record marks it as unverified, so the exact students and occasion remain unknown. The picture survives as a glass negative, a fragile medium widely used for press and studio work before flexible film took over. Without a date, the scene is best placed in an era when women's colleges were broadening access to higher education in the United States.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,754 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17401 |
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