Floating church, New York – 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.)
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Floating church, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Floating church, New York
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Moored on the water rather than planted on land, the floating church in this glass negative belongs to a long tradition of ministry to sailors and dockworkers in busy harbor cities. Such missions were typically converted vessels, fitted with pews and an altar, that offered worship and shelter to people whose work kept them away from shore parishes. The Bain News Service, which produced this negative, documented New York's streets, waterfronts and institutions for newspaper use, though the record gives no firm date for this view. The title comes from caption information that the collection itself marks as unverified, so the exact vessel and its location are worth checking against other sources.
| 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 | 5,735 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10163 |
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