S. Blackton – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of S. Blackton. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The only name attached to this glass negative is "S. Blackton," a title the Bain News Service recorded from caption cards, and the Library of Congress lists it as unverified. The name most often linked to early American film is J. Stuart Blackton, co-founder of the Vitagraph studio, but the record does not confirm any such connection. Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with photographs of people and events in the early twentieth century, and its glass plates show the character of press photography from that period.
| 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 | 4,834 × 3,303 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28480 |
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