Open - air theatre at Sarka (Prague, Bohemia) – 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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A window into the past: Open - air theatre at Sarka (Prague, Bohemia), preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Open - air theatre at Sarka (Prague, Bohemia)
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Set in the Šárka valley on the western edge of Prague, this glass negative records an open-air theater in the wooded, stream-cut landscape that Praguers visited for summer outings and performances. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, collected and distributed news and feature photographs from the early 1900s into the 1920s, and its captions were often taken from unverified information, so the exact date and occasion are uncertain. The glass plate itself shows the fine tonal detail of an early commercial photographic process, and the outdoor setting is a useful record of how such theatres were arranged in the landscape.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30888 |
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