Naval Parade – 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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Naval Parade 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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Naval Parade
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The title names a naval parade, but the record gives no date or location, and the title itself comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its card, not from a verified source. Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early 20th century, so pictures like this one were made to be reproduced quickly and captioned for publication. Military processions of that era drew large crowds and were a common subject for news photographers, who often recorded sailors, uniforms, and onlookers together. Glass negatives like this one preserve fine detail, which makes them valuable for studying dress, equipment, and street life of the 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,728 × 4,198 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12030 |
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