Sir Henry Wickham – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Sir Henry Wickham. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sir Henry Wickham
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Sir Henry Wickham is best known for smuggling rubber seeds out of Brazil in 1876, a move that helped establish large rubber plantations in Southeast Asia and reshaped the global rubber trade. The record gives no date for this glass negative, and the name comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the identification should be read with that caution. The Bain agency sold news pictures of public figures to newspapers, so this portrait likely reflects that working press practice.
| 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 | 4,089 × 5,614 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39371 |
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