Melanie Kurt, at piano – 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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A window into the past: Melanie Kurt, at piano, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Melanie Kurt, at piano
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Here Melanie Kurt is shown seated at a piano, a setting that suggests the accompanist's bench as much as the concert stage. Kurt was a singer, and portraits that pair a performer with an instrument were a common way to present musicians to newspaper readers. The Bain News Service, the New York agency whose negatives make up this collection, supplied photographs to papers in the early twentieth century, often for stories about performers in the news. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption cards that have not been verified, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.
| 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 | 4,216 × 5,766 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19670 |
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