A.G. Cochran (and wife) – 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.)
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A window into the past: A.G. Cochran (and wife), preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A.G. Cochran (and wife)
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The caption identifies the sitters only as A.G. Cochran and his wife, and the Bain News Service attached that name to the negative without independent verification, so the couple's identity and the occasion remain uncertain. The picture was made on a glass plate, the standard support for photographers through the early 1900s. It comes from the agency George Grantham Bain founded in New York in 1899 to supply newspapers with pictures of people and events. With no date recorded, the portrait is best read as a document of its era, when a formal sitting was a deliberate occasion.
| 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 | 2,934 × 4,284 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36850 |
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