Chicago - Coliseum – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Chicago - Coliseum, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chicago - Coliseum
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This view shows the Chicago Coliseum, a large indoor arena on the South Side that drew crowds for political conventions, sports, and exhibitions in the early 1900s. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a wire photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers from about 1900 into the 1920s. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency recorded at the time, so the exact year and occasion remain unconfirmed. The building's scale and its place in the city's public life make it worth a close look.
| 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 | 5,772 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11820 |
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