Baptism at Chautauqua – 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.)
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Step back in time with Baptism at Chautauqua, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Baptism at Chautauqua
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Few pictures in the Bain collection name a place as plainly as this one does, and "Baptism at Chautauqua" points to the Chautauqua movement, the adult education and summer assembly program that drew crowds to lakeside grounds across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency, sold images like this one to newspapers, so the negative was made to be reproduced quickly for a wide readership. The record does not give a date or photographer, and the title comes from caption information the agency itself supplied, so the exact event and year remain uncertain.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10245 |
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