Thomas – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Thomas, 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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Little is recorded about this glass negative beyond its title, "Thomas," which the Bain News Service assigned from its own notes and which has not been independently verified. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made and distributed by Bain's New York agency in the early twentieth century. The service supplied newspapers with pictures of current events, public figures and everyday scenes, so many of its negatives were made quickly for prompt publication. Small glass plates like this one were the standard working format of that era, and they often retain a sharpness and tonal range that later film did not always match.
| 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 | 5,635 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31796 |
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