Carl Braun & family – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Carl Braun & family. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Carl Braun & family
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A family group portrait labeled "Carl Braun & family" is the only identifying detail here, and the record cannot confirm who the sitters were or when the picture was taken. The title comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that George Grantham Bain founded around 1899 to supply news photographs to newspapers, and the name was taken from negatives or caption cards that have not been verified. Glass negatives of this size were the standard medium of the period, so the plate itself offers a direct record of early twentieth-century photographic practice. Researchers should treat the name as a starting point rather than a settled fact.
| 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 | 3,309 × 4,821 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25184 |
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