Putting out fire in Bain News Service Bldg. 1/6/12 – 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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Putting out fire in Bain News Service Bldg. 1/6/12 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Putting out fire in Bain News Service Bldg. 1/6/12
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A fire at the offices of the Bain News Service, the photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of current events, is the subject of this glass negative. The agency's own building is the scene, so the photographers were documenting a disaster that touched their own workplace. The title and date, January 6, 1912, come from data the agency wrote on the negatives or caption cards, and they have not been independently verified. The Bain collection is valued for showing how news photography worked in the early 1910s, when glass plates were still the standard medium.
| Created / published | 1/6/12. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11320 |
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