Mrs. Josephine C. Preston – Antique 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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Mrs. Josephine C. Preston 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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Mrs. Josephine C. Preston
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This glass negative is a portrait of Mrs. Josephine C. Preston, a name the Bain News Service recorded from its own negatives or caption cards, though the record notes that the identification is unverified and the picture is undated. George Grantham Bain founded the agency in New York in the early 1900s to supply newspapers with photographs of current events and notable people, and its files are an important record of American life in the decades before the 1920s. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium for news photography of the period, so the negative itself is worth noticing for its fragile, large-format detail.
| 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 | 4,209 × 5,753 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31044 |
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