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Lefty Flynn – Antique Print

Lefty Flynn, n/a — historic photograph
Lefty Flynn, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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 Lefty Flynn. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Lefty Flynn

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The record gives this glass negative the title "Lefty Flynn," a nickname that may point to a left-handed athlete, though the title comes from caption data the record itself calls unverified, and no date is recorded. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, produced many images like this one, and its photographers often recorded sports figures, public personalities and news events. Viewers researching the picture can compare its pose, setting and dress with other Bain portraits from the same period.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,804 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-12210

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