Biller, at high-jump, Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn – Antique 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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Biller, at high-jump, Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Biller, at high-jump, Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn
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Biller, identified in the caption as a high jumper, is captured at the Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn, where the Young Men's Christian Association ran athletic programs for young men in the early 1900s. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, the New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain that supplied newspapers with news and sports photographs around 1908. The title comes from caption data the agency wrote on the negatives, which has not been independently verified, so the athlete's full name and the exact event remain uncertain. Even so, the image shows how quickly action photography was becoming a regular part of American newspaper coverage.
| Created / published | 9/7/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,272 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3401 |
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