Fire -- Imperial Hotel, Tokyo – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Fire -- Imperial Hotel, Tokyo in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fire -- Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
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The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1923, is the subject named in this negative's title, which points to a fire at the building. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so it is best read as a starting point. George Grantham Bain ran a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs in the early twentieth century, and pictures like this were made to be reproduced quickly for print.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,876 × 6,400 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35540 |
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