Rach'off i.e. Rachmaninoff – Historic Print
(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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Rach'off i.e. Rachmaninoff
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The caption on this glass negative reads "Rach'off," a shorthand that the Bain News Service apparently used for the Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, though the record notes that the identification is unverified. Rachmaninoff toured the United States as a pianist from 1909 and settled there after leaving Russia in 1918, so the agency's New York files would have captured him often during those years. Bain supplied newspapers and magazines with pictures of performers, politicians and other public figures, and its glass negatives remain a valuable record of early twentieth-century American celebrity.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32966 |
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