On Grand St. New York - Public domain portrait photograph
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Mayor McClellan presents to Traffic Squad trophy won at Syracuse New Y...
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Frederick Cromwell, Pach Bros., N.Y. Pach Bros
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Xmas toy seller, 6th Ave - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows Christmas toy seller with teddy bears on Sixth Avenue, New York City. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News ... More
P.R.R. Pennsylvania Railroad terminal, Oct.' 08 New York
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Dr. J.H. Finley, N.Y.C. College
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
New York - Paris race: Germans in Protos car, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Police and doctors working over dead and wounded anarchists. Ass't. Di...
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
General Grant and others at launch of "Vestal", Brooklyn, N.Y
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
"Virginia Reel" folk dances, Van Cort't Park Van Cortlandt Park, New Y...
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Mott St. decorted for relig. feast, Brooklyn, N.Y
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Crippled children's motor car ride, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
View from 33rd floor of Met. Bldg., N.E., New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Salvation Army dinner, crowd outside Grand Central Palace, Christmas, ...
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
DeGarmo fly-casting, spectators, VanCortlandt Park, N.Y
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
May Day Parade, women marchers, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Luggage from boat on baggage carts, pier of N.D.L. Line
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Woman showing baggage contents to customs officer, N.D.L. pier, New Yo...
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
East side crowd discussing price of meat in front of shops, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Hilda Wierum -- Greta Torpadie - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows soprano opera singer Greta Hervor Lisbeth Bratt (Torpadie) (1890-1982) with Hilda Wierum holding sign for the "American Polish Relief Committee, 14 E. 46th Street", New York City. (Source: Flic... More
Patient at "Sea Breeze Jr." - Public domain portrait photograph
Photo shows "Junior Sea Breeze" a summer hospital for babies run by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, supported by John D. Rockefeller. The hospital was located at 64th Street and the Eas... More
N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Com'r Johnson - N.Y, George Grantham Bain Collection
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). General information about the George Grantha... More
N.Y. Playground, George Grantham Bain Collection
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). General information about the George Grantha... More
Cow barn blown down, Geneva, N.Y., cyclone
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
One-step car, N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows a trolley in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of ... More
"Washington Irving" House, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a house at 17th Street and Irving Place, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date from data pro... More
Albert "Cozy" Dolin at Hilltop Park, NY, New York AL (baseball)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Dolan, Yanks. Corrected title and date based on research ... More
Mayor Gaynor, (Polo Grounds,) Col. John Whalen
Photo shows (left to right) Captain Hill, New York City Mayor William Jay Gaynor, unidentified man, and Col. John Whalen. (Source: Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006 and F... More
Christy Mathewson, New York NL, at left and Courtenay? at right at the...
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Mathewson & W. Courtenay. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American B... More
Taft at Indian Monument Dedication
Photo shows President William Howard Taft at the groundbreaking ceremony for the National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons proj... More
Bouck White arrested, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows the arrest of minister and socialist Bouck White (1874-1951), who was detained for disrupting a service at Calvary Baptist Church, West 57th Street, New York City, the church where John D. Rock... More
Wilbert Robinson, manager, hitting, and Bill Fischer catching, Brookly...
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Wilbert Robinson hitting ball in infield practice. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committe... More
Braslau, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1888-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Ency... More
Michael P. Grace, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows Irish American businessman Michael Paul Grace (1842-1920), chairman of the board of W. R. Grace and Company shipping company (New York City) and of Grace Brothers & Co. Ltd. (London, England).... More
Madelyn Sheppard, J.B. Wells, Mrs. L.B. Woodruff, Annelu Burns
Photograph shows Helen Smith Woodruff (188-1924) who married Lewis B. Woodruff of New York City with tenor singer and composer and opera singer John Barnes Wells (1880-1935) and others. (Source: Flickr Commons ... More
J.P. Mitchel, Polo Grounds, 41415
Photograph shows John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918), who served as mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917, throwing out a ball at the Polo Grounds. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided... More
Shop front, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows the front of a cigar shop in New York City. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General info... More
Larry Schlafly, manager, Buffalo Federal League & Lee Magee, manager, ...
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Schlafly (Buff.) & Magee (Bklyn) Fed League, 1915. Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Societ... More
Joe Gedeon, New York AL (baseball)
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Joe Gedeon, NY - A. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Basebal... More
French Field Cannon, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a French field cannon at the Allied Bazaar, Grand Central Palace, New York City, June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negat... More
Ruth Law arriving at N.Y. plane
Photograph shows aviator Ruth Law arriving at Governor's Island, New York after her flight from Chicago, November 20, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title and date from data provided by the Bain N... More
Col. William G. Haan - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows William George Haan (1863-1924), a US Army general in World War I who was in the news while at Fort Totten, Queens, New York City in 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons Project, 2015 and The Sunday O... More
Pressing Venezuela flag, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a woman pressing a Venezuelan flag with an iron at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ne... More
On the RECRUIT, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a sailor demonstrating a "deck gun," possibly a Hotchkiss 1 pounder, aboard the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Lib... More
Ed Monroe, New York AL (baseball)
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Ed. Monroe, N.Y. Am. Yanks, 1917. Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Ba... More
Outside Ebbets Field, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph probably shows people on Bedford Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date based on research by the ... More
W.C. Durant, motor magnate, & wife / photo. by Bain News Service, New ...
Full-length portraits, standing on S.S. Majestic. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Marionette Theater, New York - Public domain portrait photograph
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Immigrants carrying luggage, Ellis Island, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Work on submarines, winter, Brooklyn
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Xmas shoppers, New York - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, New York City
Photograph shows Riverside Drive from 73rd Street, with the Charles M. Schwab House (Riverside) with lawn on the right. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information... More
Bowery bread line, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a crowd of men outside the Bowery Mission, 55 Bowery Street, New York City. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Servi... More
May Day Parade, N.Y.C - Public domain portrait photograph
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
View from 33rd floor of Met. Life Tower showing 23rd St., New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Buying Easter flowers, Union Sq. New York
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Barnard College Tree Day, oration by Irma Alexander, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Children going to dance, Van Cortl't Park, Van Cortlandt Park, New Yor...
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Launching of "Vestal", Brooklyn, N.Y
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Trixie Friganza making a suffrage speech New York
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Crowd entering Carnegie Hall for N.Y. State Republican Convention, New...
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Sherman reviewing Taft Parade (New York)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Helen Keller, Pach Bros., N.Y. Pach Bros
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Jewish New Year - praying on Brooklyn Bridge i.e. Williamsburg Bridge
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date and identification of Williamsburg Bridge from similar im... More
1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New ...
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Parade of unemployed, marchers and band, New York
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
German officers in N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph
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. General information about the George Grantha... More
Toy show, New York City. Photo by Bain News Service collection
Photograph shows tables filled with various types of toys; woman standing near tables hold teddy bear and doll. George Grantham Bain Collection.
4th Ave. N.Y.C. looking north - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...
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). General information about the George Grantha... More
J.J. Eller wins 120 yd. Hurdle 1911
Photograph shows John Jacob ("Jack" or J.J.) Eller, Jr. (1883-1967), an American track and field athlete competing in the 120 yard hurdle race, held Sept. 16, 1911, at Celtic Park in Queens, New York City. (Sou... More
W.J. Bryan speaking N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph
Photo shows people listening to American politician William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), Union Square, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and similar Bain negative: LC-B2-2400-12) Title and dat... More
James C. "Red" Smith, Brooklyn NL (baseball)
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Smith, Bklyn. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Rese... More
Women going to Syracuse convention
Photo shows delegates to the New York State Bull Moose convention in 1912, held at the Arena on South Salina Street, in Syracuse, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Title from data provided by the... More
Suffrage hike to Wash'n - Public domain demonstration photograph
Photo shows suffrage hikers who took part in the suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C. which joined the March 3, 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association parade. (Source: Flickr Commons ... More
Orphans at horse show - N.Y., 1113
Photo shows orphans at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms p... More
Grand jury at Capt. Walsh's, 21313
Photograph shows grand jury members gathered outside the house of Captain Thomas W. Walsh at 1958 Madison Avenue, New York City. Grand jury was investigating a police graft system case. (Source: Flickr Commons... More
Natalie Alt, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photo shows actress Natalie Alt, who performed in productions between 1911 and 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and Internet Broadway Database, 5/20/1010) Title and date from data provided by the Bai... More
At Gaynor notification 9313 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...
Photo shows the notification ceremony that took place on September 3, 1913 on the steps of City Hall, New York City, where Mayor William J. Gaynor was nominated for re-election. C.F.M. on sign stands for Charl... More
I.W.W. Hat Card, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photo shows man wearing hat with card "Bread or revolution" at IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) rally in Union Square, New York City on April 11, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Ti... More
Snowstorm -- N.Y., 21414, George Grantham Bain Collection
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). General information about the George Grantha... More
War exhibit -- N.Y., 61415 - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows a Curtiss biplane at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (Source: Flickr C... More
Neighborhood Playhouse, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows the Neighborhood Playhouse, a theater located on Grand Street in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Photogr... More
War exhibit -- N.Y, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a stuffed cavalry horse at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (Source: Fl... More
Inauguration Albany, 1115, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows procession for the inauguration of Governor Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947), Albany, New York, January 1, 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title and date from data provided by t... More
Curb Market, New York - Public domain portrait photograph
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More
Xmas on NEW YORK - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows a group of children on board the U.S. battleship "New York", one of the newest in the nation's fleet, greeting "Santa Claus Luddy, the bosun's mate on Christmas day, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commo... More
Moving Hotel de Gink - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows men moving a sewing machine at the Hotel de Gink, a hotel for "hobos" and itinerant workers located at Centre and Worth Streets, the Bowery, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012... More
War exhibit -- N.Y, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a Curtiss biplane at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (Source: Flickr C... More
War exhibit -- N.Y. field telephone
Photograph shows a soldier using a field telephone at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (... More
Fernando Carpi & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Fernando Carpi (1876-1959) with his wife, arriving in New York City on board the French liner Espagne from Florence via Bordeaux. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 201... More
Mgr. Lavelle Reviewing 69th, N.Y
Photograph shows Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, reviewing the 69th Infantry of the U.S. Army, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014 and New York Times, June 22,... More
Dolly Sisters selling Bazaar tickets
Photograph shows vaudeville performers The Dolly Sisters, twins Rosika (Rose) (1892-1970) and Jansci (Jenny)(1892-1941) Deutsch, selling tickets at Allied Bazaar Ticket Day in New York City, June 1, 1916.(Sourc... More
Mrs. O. Harriman, Blaine Ewing, Lieut. McKinney
Photograph shows Grace Carley Harriman, Blaine Ewing, and Lieutenant McKinney on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds d... More
Christening "U-BUY-A-BOND" - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows the chistening of the SM UC-5, a German Type UC I minelayer submarine (U-boat) which was captured by the Allies, brought to New York City and renamed U-Buy-a-Bond. The submarine was christened... More
Diantha Pattison, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows actress Diantha Pattison (1894-1975) selling the flags of World War I Allies at an Actors' Fund Fair in New York City in 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by... More
Lining aeroplane airplane bodies, College Point
Photograph shows workers lining airplane bodies at the Lowe, Willard & Fowler Engineering Company, College Point, Queens, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title and date from data provided ... More
Lt. Col. P. Loeser - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Loeser (d. 1943), Commander of the Eighth Coast Defense Command (Coast Artillery Corps) during a parade of the 27th Division (National Guard of New York) on August 30, 1... More
Gertrude McCoy, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows American silent film star Gertrude McCoy in her oldsmobile at the automobile fashion show held at Sheepshead Bay Speedway, New York City, June 23, 1917. The event was a fundraiser on behalf of... More
Mitchel Funeral, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows the funeral of John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) who served as mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George ... More