Pauline Starke – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pauline Starke. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pauline Starke
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Pauline Starke was a film actress whose career ran through the silent era, and this glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that supplied press pictures of celebrities, politicians and news events to newspapers and magazines, and its glass plates were usually made for quick reproduction in print. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negative or its card, which was not always verified. Silent-era studio portraits like this one were often made for publicity, so the image likely reflects how studios presented their stars to the public.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,353 × 5,897 px · prints to 15 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27853 |
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