Women workers, Engl. – 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.)
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Women workers, Engl. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Women workers, Engl.
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Its caption points to England, though the abbreviated "Engl." and the unverified title leave the exact town and workplace unknown. The glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and its negatives were often captioned in haste, so details like these were sometimes incomplete. Pictures of women at work from that era often reflect a broader shift: in Britain, women took on many factory, transport and industrial jobs during the First World War, when men were away on military service. Viewers should read the scene as a record of that moment, not as a documented account of one particular workplace.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,116 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24423 |
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