Maj. Davis Elkins – Antique 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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Maj. Davis Elkins
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The image is a glass negative of Maj. Davis Elkins, one of the few Bain News Service portraits in this group that names its sitter by rank. Elkins was a son of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, whose family gave its name to the town of Elkins, West Virginia, and the rank in the title suggests the portrait was made for a news story about him. The record gives no date, so the exact occasion is unknown. Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, made many such portraits for quick publication, so the glass negative preserves the look of press photography from that era.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,315 × 4,884 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27195 |
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