Blackburne, Chicago – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Blackburne, Chicago, 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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Blackburne, Chicago
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The title on this glass negative gives only a surname, Blackburne, and the record notes that even this comes from caption cards and has not been verified, so the subject is best read as an open question. It is one of the Chicago views in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's news service supplied photographs of people, streets and events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives from that period often preserve the dress, vehicles and street life of the city as it was then. Because the identification is uncertain, the image is most useful as a record of its time and place rather than as a documented portrait.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18400 |
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