DENVER – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures DENVER in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The record offers little beyond a title, so this glass negative is best understood through the collection it belongs to. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of roughly 40,000 news photographs made and distributed by the Bain News Service in New York between about 1900 and 1920. Bain's operation sold pictures of current events, public figures and city scenes to newspapers, and its images are valued today as a record of everyday American life in the early twentieth century. The caption attributes this view to Denver, Colorado, a rapidly growing city of that era, though the date and exact location remain unverified.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12529 |
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