Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller Jr. – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller Jr.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller Jr.
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The record links this glass negative to Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., though the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the sitter's identity deserves some caution. If the attribution holds, the subject is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who later co-founded the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1929 and became a notable collector of American folk art. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers, produced large numbers of glass negatives in the early twentieth century, and plates like this one show how press portraits were made in that period.
| 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 | 5,810 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28627 |
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