O'Brien - Harvard – 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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O'Brien - Harvard
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The caption names only a man surnamed O'Brien and Harvard, with no first name, date, or occasion, so the picture has to be read through its setting. Harvard, in Cambridge across the Charles River from Boston, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and a frequent subject for newspaper photographers in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, made many such views on glass negatives, and the collection preserves them as a record of how the press covered campus life and public figures of that era. Because this negative is undated, its exact moment remains uncertain.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,178 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15381 |
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