Basil Dean & 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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Basil Dean & wife comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Basil Dean & wife
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The record names the sitters as Basil Dean and his wife, but the title comes from unverified caption data, and no date is recorded. Dean was a British theater producer and film director who worked in London and Hollywood, so the picture likely belongs to one of his public appearances, though the record does not say which. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds glass negatives from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures of notable people and events to newspapers, mostly in the early twentieth century. Such portraits were made quickly for news use, so the plates often survive with little documentation.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,247 × 4,747 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39725 |
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