Rokusaburo Nakanishi – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Rokusaburo Nakanishi
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The record names this glass negative for Rokusaburo Nakanishi, a name the Bain News Service recorded on its caption cards, though the library notes that the attribution has not been verified and no date is given. The Bain agency, founded in New York in the early 1900s by George Grantham Bain, sold news pictures and portraits to newspapers and magazines, and its glass negatives record the faces and events that filled the papers of that era. Glass plates were the standard medium for press photographers until flexible film replaced them, so the format itself places the picture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Viewers interested in this sitter will need to look beyond the picture to confirm who he was and when it was taken.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | 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). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,415 × 7,450 px · prints to 18 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33857 |
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