Astor Funeral - 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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Step back in time with Astor Funeral - N.Y., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Astor Funeral - N.Y.
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The title "Astor Funeral - N.Y." points to a New York funeral for a member of the Astor family, one of the city's most prominent families of the late 1800s and early 1900s, though the record gives no date, and the Bain News Service caption is unverified. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so the image was likely made for quick press use, when crowds, mourners, and carriages at such events drew wide interest. Its glass negative format, common for newspaper photography of that era, is worth noticing because it captured fine detail that later film could not always match.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,823 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13035 |
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