Ice sailing – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Ice sailing, 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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Ice sailing
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Ice sailing, as this glass negative is titled, shows wind-driven craft skimming across frozen water, a winter pastime far removed from the open channels where steamboats worked. The title comes from notes the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its caption card, and those details have not been independently verified, so the exact place and date remain uncertain. George Grantham Bain ran a New York news photography service in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives now form a large part of the Library of Congress collection. Ice boating was a popular winter recreation on frozen lakes and rivers in the northern United States.
| 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 | 5,703 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11281 |
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