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W.S. West – Antique Print

W.S. West, n/a — historic photograph
W.S. West, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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 W.S. West. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The only identifying detail for this negative is its title, W.S. West, which the Bain News Service recorded on the glass plate or its caption card. The record marks that name as unverified, and it gives no date, so the subject and the moment the picture was made remain uncertain. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency active in the early twentieth century that supplied newspapers with photographs of people and news events. Its glass negatives now form part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, where the name is best treated as a starting point for further research.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 four loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan4,254 × 5,823 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-16687

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