Gina Viafora, Evelyn Herbert – Vintage 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 Gina Viafora, Evelyn Herbert. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gina Viafora, Evelyn Herbert
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Two names, Gina Viafora and Evelyn Herbert, are the only identifiers on this glass negative, and the Bain News Service supplied them without independent verification, so who stands before the lens and why remains open. The Bain News Service, founded in New York in 1899 by George Grantham Bain, sold news pictures to newspapers across the early twentieth century, and its negatives capture the people and events that filled those pages. With no date recorded, the image is best read as one piece of that commercial archive, a working record of its period rather than a documented event.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,909 × 3,372 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27143 |
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