Agassiz – 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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Agassiz comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The only identifying text here is a single word, "Agassiz," which the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or its caption card, and the record notes that the title is unverified. The name most often connected to it is the Swiss-born naturalist Louis Agassiz, who taught at Harvard and founded its Museum of Comparative Zoology, though the picture may refer to a place or another person. The Bain agency operated in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, selling news photographs to newspapers, so this glass negative is best read as a working press picture of its era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10260 |
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