Christmas Mail – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Christmas Mail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christmas Mail
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Titled "Christmas Mail," this glass negative points to the holiday rush that once filled post offices, when families and businesses sent cards and parcels across long distances before the season. The George Grantham Bain Collection, which holds it, came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with photographs in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified information the agency wrote on the negative or its caption card, so the exact scene and location should be read with that caution. Even so, the subject shows how central mail was to holiday life in that period.
| 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 | 5,779 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10585 |
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