Zakhorff & Hansen – Antique 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
Zakhorff & Hansen comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Zakhorff & Hansen
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The name on this glass negative, Zakhorff & Hansen, is the only clue to its subject, and it reads like a business or partnership rather than a person or landmark. Bain News Service, the New York picture agency that George Grantham Bain founded around 1900, supplied news photographs to newspapers for more than two decades, and its negatives were often filed with caption cards like this one. The Library of Congress notes that the title comes from unverified card data, so the firm's identity and the picture's date remain uncertain. Such gaps are common in the collection, where many plates were catalogued with only partial information.
| 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 | 2,902 × 4,384 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37630 |
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