Russian Cossacks – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Russian Cossacks. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Russian Cossacks
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Few pictures in the Bain collection name their subject as plainly as this one does: a glass negative captioned "Russian Cossacks." The label comes from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold news pictures to newspapers in the early 1900s, and the notes flag that the title is unverified, so the exact men, place and occasion are not recorded. Cossack horsemen from the Russian Empire were a familiar sight in Western newspapers of that era, appearing in reports on the army, on imperial ceremonies and on unrest. Bain's glass plates were made for quick reproduction, so this negative offers a direct look at how such figures were presented to American readers.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18320 |
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