Bain News Service,, publisher.
Midsummer Day, Bronx Park
1911 June 23 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negative.
Photograph shows girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New
York City, having a picnic at the Midsummer Day Festival which was
held at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on June 23, 1911. (Source: Flickr
Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, June 24, 1911)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Children
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09452
Call Number: LC-B2- 2233-2
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Carla216 64 months ago | reply
This one can be dated: June 23, 1911 (notation in upper-right corner).
egoodman 51 months ago | reply
Wow, what a wonderful informal photo -- it really catches a summer moment.
Sunlight416 44 months ago | reply
Absolutely wonderful photograph!
MOVED TO flickr.com/photos/underthepyramids/ 39 months ago | reply
They look so happy !
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Soni F ★★★ 38 months ago | reply
Very cool, love this shot!
Wystan 33 months ago | reply
Other Bain/LOC photos taken during the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, on June 23, 1911 in Bronx Park [Corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park]:
Story in The New York Times, June 24, 1911 [scrolling required]:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...