Semenoff & wife – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Semenoff & wife, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Semenoff & wife
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The record gives only the names "Semenoff" and "his wife," and it notes that the title comes from unverified caption data, so the couple's identity remains uncertain. The surname may refer to Grigory Semenov, the Cossack commander who led anti-Bolshevik forces in eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War, but nothing in the record confirms that link. The negative belongs to the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that produced glass-plate negatives in the early twentieth century for newspapers covering news figures and daily life. Its undated plate is typical of that working collection.
| 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 | 4,278 × 6,361 px · prints to 14 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33836 |
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