Snow plow, Union Square – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Snow plow, Union Square brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Snow plow, Union Square
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Union Square in New York is the setting here, and the scene shows a snow plow at work on its streets, a sight that tells you how city crews once cleared winter storms with horses and hand-guided blades. This is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of work produced by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record notes that the title comes from caption information written by the agency and has not been verified, so the exact date of the snowfall is unknown. Still, the picture is worth a close look for its street scene and the working equipment 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 | 5,754 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11265 |
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