Elsie Ferguson – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Elsie Ferguson comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Elsie Ferguson
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Elsie Ferguson, the stage and silent-film actress, is the subject of this glass negative, one of the portraits made by the Bain News Service and later gathered into the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Ferguson was a popular Broadway star in the 1910s and early 1920s, and studio portraits like this one were routinely distributed to newspapers and magazines to accompany theater and film stories. The record lists no date for the negative, and its identification comes from the caption cards the agency kept, so the sitter's name is recorded as the agency gave it. Bain's glass plates, made between about 1900 and 1920, document a busy period of American press photography.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,259 × 4,846 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32793 |
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