McCormack & Bori – Historic Reproduction
(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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The title pairs two singers, the Irish tenor John McCormack and the Spanish soprano Lucrezia Bori, though the record notes that the name comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card. The two were frequent stage partners at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1910s and 1920s, a period when the Bain News Service supplied newspapers with photographs of performers and public figures. The Bain collection, built from the agency's glass negatives made into the early 1930s, is valued as a record of early twentieth-century celebrity. This negative's small format, 5 by 7 inches or smaller, was typical of the agency's working files.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,118 × 5,675 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40150 |
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