Adm. Usher & Mayor Mitchel – Historic 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 Adm. Usher & Mayor Mitchel 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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Adm. Usher & Mayor Mitchel
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Two men are named in the caption, Adm. Usher and Mayor Mitchel, and the record gives no date, so the pairing and occasion are unconfirmed. The caption spells the surname "Mitchel," which matches John Purroy Mitchel, mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917, a period when the city's leaders often appeared at naval and civic events. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its small format and the agency's cataloging make it a useful example of how press images of public officials were made and filed during those years.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,871 × 3,291 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25755 |
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