Wall St. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Wall St. 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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This negative shows Wall Street, the narrow lower Manhattan street that had become the center of American finance by the early twentieth century. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines during the same decades. The record gives no date for this view, and the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, so the exact year and vantage point remain uncertain. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working medium of press photographers of the period, and their fine detail is a useful guide to the street's buildings and traffic.
| 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 | 4,809 × 3,259 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32519 |
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