Louise Homer – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Louise Homer in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Louise Homer
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Louise Homer, the American contralto, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Homer (1871–1947) was a leading singer at the Metropolitan Opera and was known for her rich lower voice and her recordings. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from the early 1900s, made many portraits of performers of the era, and this negative belongs to that body of work. The record gives no exact date, so the sitting is best placed in Homer's active years on the New York stage.
| 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 | 3,321 × 4,797 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25582 |
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