NEW YORK & TEXAS – 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: NEW YORK & TEXAS, 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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The title pairs two places, New York and Texas, which suggests a caption that linked a city and a state rather than a single scene. The record gives no date or verified subject, and the title itself is unconfirmed, so the pairing may reflect how the Bain News Service labeled the negative. George Grantham Bain's agency operated in New York in the early twentieth century, supplying newspapers with news and feature photographs on glass plates like this one. Its collection is valued for documenting everyday urban life and national events of that era.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,922 × 3,384 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24787 |
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