Joining of waters -- Cape Cod Canal – Historic 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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A window into the past: Joining of waters -- Cape Cod Canal, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Joining of waters -- Cape Cod Canal
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The title points to the canal's central idea: a channel where the waters of two bays meet. The Cape Cod Canal, cut across the narrow neck of land at the Cape's base, links Cape Cod Bay on the north with Buzzards Bay on the south, sparing coastal ships the long, hazardous voyage around the Cape's tip. It opened to traffic in 1914 and passed to federal control in 1928. The Bain News Service, a New York news-photo agency active in the early twentieth century, sold pictures like this one to newspapers that wanted images of new engineering works.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18411 |
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