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Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford – Vintage Wall Art

Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, [1920] — historic photograph
Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, [1920]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company collection.

(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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A window into the past: Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford

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Few film couples of the early 1920s were as famous as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who appear in this glass negative from the National Photo Company. The two had married in 1920 and were widely called "America's sweethearts." Fairbanks and Pickford had also helped found United Artists in 1919, a studio created so that performers could control their own films. The National Photo Company, based in Washington, D.C., recorded many visiting public figures, and this plate shows the streaks and blemishes that can appear as glass negative coatings age.

Created / published[1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan4,181 × 5,154 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-231110

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