George Grantham Bain was a famed American news photographer based in New York City.   He first worked for United Press before starting his own photo service, named Bain News Service.  Bain’s original photos are usually small, postcard or snapshot size, and  easily identified by his name or ‘Bain New Service’ rubber stamped on back, often with the date.  As shown in several of the below images, he often wrote on the negatives with the writing appearing on the photos.