White House – 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.)
Description
This historic photograph of White House brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
White House
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The White House is the only record here of the building itself, and this glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the press-photo archive of the Bain News Service, which operated in New York from the early 1900s through the 1910s and sent pictures of national news to newspapers across the country. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the Bain files cover the Washington executive mansion over many years, and their prints of it show the building as the President's residence and working office during that era. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working format of press photographers before film became common, which is why their images are sharp in detail and carry the look of the period.
| 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 | 5,817 × 4,291 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16101 |
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