B & O Wreck - Washington – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of B & O Wreck - Washington. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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B & O Wreck - Washington
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The title names the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the oldest common carrier in the United States, and places the wreck in Washington, though the Bain News Service's caption data was never verified, so the exact location and date remain uncertain. The glass negative comes from George Grantham Bain's agency, which supplied newspapers with news photographs from roughly 1900 through the 1920s. Railway accidents of that era often drew press photographers to show the twisted cars, damaged track, and crowds of onlookers and rescue crews. The image is a useful record of how such wrecks were documented before newsreels became common.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,207 × 4,183 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40650 |
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