Paul Payan & 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.)
Description
This historic photograph of Paul Payan & wife brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Paul Payan & wife
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Little is recorded about the sitters beyond the names Paul Payan and his wife, and those names come from unverified caption data, so the identification is best treated as provisional. The picture survives as a glass negative, a format that news photographers and studios relied on through the early twentieth century before flexible film became standard. George Grantham Bain founded his photo agency in New York in 1899, and it supplied pictures of public figures, events and everyday life to newspapers. Portraits like this one show the agency's steady output of people who appeared in print during those years.
| 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 | 5,068 × 7,496 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35056 |
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