Fire -- 6th Ave. & 18th, 1916 – 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 Fire -- 6th Ave. & 18th, 1916, 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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Fire -- 6th Ave. & 18th, 1916
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Sixth Avenue at 18th Street in Manhattan is the corner named in this 1916 view of a fire, and the record credits the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers. The title comes from caption cards and negatives that have not been independently verified, so the building involved and the cause of the blaze are not known here. Still, the picture reflects the steady street-level fire coverage of the period, when fire engines and crowds were a familiar sight in busy city blocks.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,283 × 4,841 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23062 |
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