Einstein – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Einstein. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Einstein
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Albert Einstein is the subject here, though the record offers little else: no date, no photographer, and a title taken from unverified notes made by the Bain News Service, the New York agency whose glass negatives fill the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's staff worked quickly, often photographing public figures at events and in studios for newspaper use in the early 1900s, so the plate likely reflects that routine newsroom practice. Einstein was among the most photographed scientists of his era, and his public image was shaped in large part by pictures like these. The glass plate itself is a fragile record of how such images were made and circulated.
| 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 | 3,277 × 4,878 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33301 |
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