Mrs. Edw. Browning – 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.)
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This historic photograph of Mrs. Edw. Browning brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mrs. Edw. Browning
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A glass negative titled simply "Mrs. Edw. Browning" identifies its sitter only by her husband's first name and surname, a common pattern on the caption cards of the Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain ran a New York picture agency that supplied news and portrait photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from the agency's own unverified data, so the sitter's full identity and the circumstances of the sitting remain open. Small glass plates like this one were the everyday medium of the period, prized for the sharp detail they recorded in a face and its clothing.
| 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 | 4,241 × 5,823 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20141 |
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