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Bain News Service photos

George Grantham Bain's New York agency was one of the first news photo services in the United States. Its photographers covered the people and events in the papers: politicians and suffragists, baseball players and stage stars, parades, disasters and the First World War. The Library of Congress holds its glass negatives and prints.

Why they are free to use: The Library of Congress knows of no restrictions on publishing the Bain photographs. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.

20,067 photos in the index, by decade:

The 1840s

All 13 Bain News Service photos from the 1840s

The 1850s

All 35 Bain News Service photos from the 1850s

The 1860s

All 73 Bain News Service photos from the 1860s

The 1870s

All 99 Bain News Service photos from the 1870s

The 1880s

All 76 Bain News Service photos from the 1880s

The 1890s

All 135 Bain News Service photos from the 1890s

The 1900s

All 4,459 Bain News Service photos from the 1900s

The 1910s

All 13,524 Bain News Service photos from the 1910s

The 1920s

All 1,630 Bain News Service photos from the 1920s

The 1930s

All 23 Bain News Service photos from the 1930s

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