College plane races – 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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College plane races
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The record gives the subject only as "College plane races," so the exact event, school and date remain unconfirmed. The title comes from caption cards and data supplied by the Bain News Service, the New York picture agency that George Grantham Bain founded around 1900 to sell news photographs to newspapers. Bain's glass negatives capture many early twentieth-century events, and their small format of 5 by 7 inches or less was typical of the period's working press cameras. Aviation drew strong public interest in those years, and student competitions of this kind were often staged as spectacles for crowds and reporters.
| 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 × 3,271 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31624 |
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