Free milk parade – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of Free milk parade brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Free milk parade
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Little is known about this scene beyond its title, which the Bain News Service wrote on the caption cards and which the Library of Congress lists as unverified, with no date given. The Bain agency, based in New York, supplied newspapers with pictures of city life and public events in the early twentieth century, so a procession like this likely belongs to that urban news coverage. Free milk programs of the period, such as Nathan Straus's campaign to supply pasteurized milk to infants and poor families in New York, responded to concerns about contaminated milk and infant deaths, and a parade could serve as a visible sign of that charitable reform.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 7,496 × 5,105 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33930 |
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