Gen. Louis Botha – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gen. Louis Botha. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gen. Louis Botha
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Named here as Louis Botha, this glass negative shows a Boer commander who became the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The identification comes from caption information written by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold photographs of public figures to newspapers, and it has not been independently verified. Botha had led Boer forces in the South African War and later signed the Treaty of Versailles at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, so a portrait of him would have carried real news value for American readers.
| 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 | 5,872 × 4,254 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16701 |
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