YMCA hut -- N.Y. – Antique 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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YMCA hut -- N.Y. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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YMCA hut -- N.Y.
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The George Grantham Bain Collection holds this glass negative of a YMCA hut in New York, a wartime structure of the kind the Young Men's Christian Association set up to give soldiers and sailors a place to rest, write letters and get a hot meal. Bain News Service, the photo agency that Bain ran from New York from about 1899, sold images like this to newspapers and magazines, so the plate was likely made to illustrate a story about the organization's work. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact location and year remain uncertain. The negative format, with its fine detail on glass, is typical of the agency's working files.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,891 × 3,403 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28199 |
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