Ratan Devi – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Ratan Devi, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ratan Devi
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The name attached to this negative is Ratan Devi, though the Library of Congress notes that the title comes from unverified data the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its caption card. The image survives as a small glass negative, five by seven inches or smaller, the format the agency relied on heavily from its founding in New York in 1899 into the early 1930s. With no date or further caption detail, it is best read as part of Bain's broader body of news and portrait work, made for newspapers and magazines that needed pictures reproduced quickly. Researchers should treat the name as a starting point rather than a settled identification.
| 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 | 3,327 × 4,878 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27554 |
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