Gen. Sir B.T. Mahon – Historic Reproduction
(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: Gen. Sir B.T. Mahon, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gen. Sir B.T. Mahon
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The sitter is named on the caption card as Gen. Sir B.T. Mahon, though the Bain News Service's identification is unverified and the record gives no date. Bryan Mahon, an Irish-born officer, led the 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli in 1915 and later held senior posts in Ireland during the unrest of 1919 to 1921. The Bain News Service, a New York press agency, supplied photographs of public figures to newspapers in the 1900s and 1910s, so the portrait likely reflects the wartime or postwar attention that made such officers newsworthy. The glass negative format of the collection also offers a window into how press portraits were made before film became standard.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,166 × 5,747 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21730 |
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