Race track - Saratoga – Historic 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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Step back in time with Race track - Saratoga, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Race track - Saratoga
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Saratoga's racecourse in upstate New York, set in a spa town at the edge of the Adirondack foothills, opened in 1863 and is one of the oldest sporting venues in the United States. This glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news and everyday pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and its title is unverified, so the view is best read as a glimpse of the track during the Bain years rather than a documented moment. Glass plates like this one captured fine detail, which is why racing views from that period still reward close looking.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 935 × 697 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11992 |
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