Registering at N.Y. Job Bureau – 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.)
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A window into the past: Registering at N.Y. Job Bureau, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Registering at N.Y. Job Bureau
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The line of job seekers waiting to register at a New York employment bureau is the particular subject here, shown through a glass negative that carries no firm date. Its title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives or their cards, and the record notes that this attribution has not been verified. The Bain agency, founded by George Grantham Bain in New York, sold news pictures to newspapers and magazines, and most of its surviving work dates from roughly the 1900s through the 1920s. Pictures of employment offices from that era offer a useful view of how unemployed workers sought jobs before public employment services became common.
| 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 | 5,873 × 4,235 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16660 |
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