Olympic swimmers – 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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Olympic swimmers comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Olympic swimmers
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Unlike many pictures on this board, this one is a glass negative whose record names its subject only as "Olympic swimmers," with no date, place, or photographer attached. The title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives or cards, so it reflects how the agency described the image rather than a confirmed identification. Bain's New York agency supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early decades of the twentieth century, and swimming was a regular feature of Olympic coverage from the first modern Games in 1896. Because the record is thin, the picture is best read as a sample of how wire-service photographers recorded athletes at the Games during that 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 | 5,710 × 4,167 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12020 |
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