Ina Claire – Antique 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Ina Claire. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ina Claire
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Ina Claire was a stage and screen actress whose career spanned the Broadway stage and Hollywood, and this glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of pictures made by the Bain News Service in New York. The Bain agency produced and sold news and celebrity photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, so portraits of performers like Claire were made to be reproduced quickly for publication. The record's title comes from unverified caption data, and the date is not recorded, so the exact sitting cannot be confirmed from the negative alone. Its glass format reflects the studio practice of the period, when such plates were common before flexible film took over.
| 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 | 3,203 × 4,788 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39896 |
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