Dead at Halifax – Antique Wall Art
(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: Dead at Halifax, 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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Dead at Halifax
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The title points to a death toll at Halifax, but the record does not say which Halifax or when, and the Bain News Service caption information is unverified. The most likely reference is the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917, when a collision between two ships in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, killed roughly 2,000 people and devastated much of the city. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers, regularly covered disasters and other breaking events, so the subject fits its work. Viewers should treat the identification as a lead rather than a confirmed fact.
| 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 | 5,754 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27119 |
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