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[Women modeling clothing] – Vintage Wall Art

[Women modeling clothing], 1920 June 11. — historic photograph
[Women modeling clothing], 1920 June 11.. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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[Women modeling clothing] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Dated June 11, 1920, this print is one of the Bain News Service's fashion pictures, identified by its catalog number, 5203-8, and a caption card that reads only "Fashion." The Bain agency, founded in New York by George Grantham Bain in 1899, sold news and feature photographs to newspapers, and its fashion images from this period often show the shifts of the early 1920s, when hemlines rose and loose, straight-cut dresses were replacing the corseted silhouettes of the prewar years. The record does not name the models or the garments, so the image is best read as a record of postwar style and of how commercial photographers presented clothing to the public.

Created / published1920 June 11.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 5203-8. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fashion.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149249

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