Melba – Antique Print
(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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This historic photograph of Melba brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Melba
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The name on this glass negative points to Nellie Melba, the Australian soprano who took her stage name from her hometown of Melbourne and became one of the best-known opera singers of the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, but the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, made many portraits of visiting performers and public figures, and Melba's American concert tours drew wide press attention. Bain's glass negatives now serve as a record of how newspapers and magazines supplied images of celebrities to the public. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the identification is worth checking against the original cards.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,377 × 4,935 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27073 |
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