In Union Sq. – 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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This historic photograph of In Union Sq. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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In Union Sq.
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Union Square in Manhattan is the setting here, one of the city's busiest public spaces and a gathering point for crowds, speakers and street traffic for much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied pictures of New York and national news to newspapers. The record gives no firm date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact moment is uncertain. Even so, the glass plate itself is a useful record of how the square and its surroundings looked in the Bain years.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,390 × 4,947 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20155 |
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