Adm. Beatty – 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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Adm. Beatty 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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Adm. Beatty
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The caption on this glass negative names "Adm. Beatty," though the record flags the title as unverified and taken from notes made by the Bain News Service. The name most likely refers to David Beatty, the British naval officer who commanded the battlecruiser force at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and later became First Sea Lord. Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs from the early 1900s into the 1920s, produced many portraits of public and wartime figures on small glass plates like this one. Because no date is recorded, the occasion of the sitting remains uncertain.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,203 × 5,792 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18546 |
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