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Incredible photographs taken by one of America s earliest news picture agencies have emerged, with Titanic survivors, teenage suffragettes and even royalty among the images.
The pictures were produced and gathered for worldwide distribution by George Grantham Bain through his Bain News Service.
The service was established in 1898 by Bain, who was known as the father of photographic news , in New York City and worked to accumulate photographs of newsworthy events which could then be distributed to newspapers around the world.
Among the images is a photograph of 13-year-old suffragette Fay Hubbard proudly showing a young boy propaganda whilst wearing a bag labelled American Suffragette.
Stunning photos from one of America s earliest news picture agencies
Incredible photographs taken by one of America s earliest news picture agencies have emerged, with Titanic survivors, teenage suffragettes and even royalty among the images. The pictures were produced and gathered for worldwide distribution by George Grantham Bain through his Bain News Service. The service was established in 1898 by Bain, who was known as the father of photographic news , in New York City and worked to accumulate photographs of newsworthy events which could then be distributed to newspapers around the world. Among the images is a photograph of 13-year-old suffragette Fay Hubbard proudly showing a young boy propaganda whilst wearing a bag labelled American Suffragette. Another picture shows two Titanic orphans - Michel, four, and Edmond Navratil, two. Their father assumed the name Louis Hoffman to board the ship and died when RMS Titanic sunk in April 1912. Royalty also graced the pictures, with
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It’s April 6, 1909, and Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are settling in at yet another camp during their third attempt to reach the North Pole. It’s something they’ve done countless times during the course of their journeys together, but on this otherwise unremarkable stretch of ice, their once-elusive goal is now within reach.
As they and the Inughuit guides unpack their supplies, tend to the dogs, and begin food preparations, Peary unfurls an American flag that his wife Josephine had sewn for him years earlier. He fastens it to the top of the camp’s igloo. Henson watches as the star-spangled silk springs to life on a polar breeze, a symbol of their triumph.
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Mainstreet on Thursday. He came from a long lineage of strong men from Weymouth Falls who were known for their ridiculous giant-like strengths.
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