Police drive crowd from Irving Place, New York – 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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Step back in time with Police drive crowd from Irving Place, New York, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Police drive crowd from Irving Place, New York
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Irving Place, a short street in Manhattan's Gramercy area, was known in the early 1900s for its German-language theater and its restaurants, so a police-cleared crowd there would have stood out. This 5 by 7 inch glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency that covered New York street life and news in this period. The record dates the picture to March 28, 1908, but the title and date come from caption data the agency recorded, and they have not been independently verified. Glass plates like this one preserve fine detail of the streetscape and clothing, which makes them useful for studying how crowds and policing looked in the city at the time.
| Created / published | 3/28/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1505 |
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