Eugene Hale, cameo portr. – 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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Eugene Hale, cameo portr. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eugene Hale, cameo portr.
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A small cameo portrait of Eugene Hale, the Republican senator who represented Maine from 1881 to 1911, makes up this glass negative. The cameo format, a head and shoulders vignetted into an oval or fading edge, was a common choice for portraits of public figures because it reproduced cleanly in newspapers and magazines. The record dates the negative to 1908, but the title comes from caption information the Bain News Service recorded itself and has not been independently verified. Glass negatives like this one were the working stock of a New York news photo agency that supplied pictures to editors across the country.
| Created / published | 12/5/08. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,298 × 5,791 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4640 |
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