Commercial Foreign Packages – Vintage 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: Commercial Foreign Packages, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Commercial Foreign Packages
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What sets this negative apart is its title, which a cataloger assigned by comparison with a related Bain image rather than from a caption written at the time, so the record offers little beyond a subject of foreign goods in packages. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of glass negatives made by Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied news and feature photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Glass plates of this size were a standard format for press and commercial work of that era, and pictures of imported cargo often document the trade moving through American ports and warehouses.
| 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). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,147 × 5,760 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12828 |
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