Emile Francqui – 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
This rare historic photograph captures Emile Francqui in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Emile Francqui
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Emile Francqui, the name on this glass negative, belongs to a Belgian financier and public figure whose career ran through the Congo and postwar Belgian finance. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with photographs in the early twentieth century, took his portrait, though the record gives no date and the title comes from unverified data on the negative or caption card. Because the Bain service handled many European news subjects, the picture is best read as a snapshot of how press photographers recorded foreign officials for American readers during those decades.
| 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 | 4,104 × 5,632 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39664 |
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