Crowds waiting for Johnson N.Y. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Crowds waiting for Johnson N.Y., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The caption describes a crowd waiting in New York for someone named Johnson, and the likeliest figure is Jack Johnson, the heavyweight boxing champion who held the title from 1908 to 1915 and was the first Black man to hold it. The record's title comes from unverified data, so the exact occasion and date remain uncertain. Bain News Service, the agency that produced this glass negative, photographed news events and public figures in New York in the early twentieth century, when a celebrity's arrival could draw large street crowds. The tightly packed onlookers pressing toward one point convey how intense public interest in Johnson's fame could be.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10737 |
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