Aug. Belmont, Herb Harriman & wife – Antique 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 Aug. Belmont, Herb Harriman & wife. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Aug. Belmont, Herb Harriman & wife
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The sitters named here are August Belmont, the New York financier who founded Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont and was a leading figure in American thoroughbred racing, and a man identified as Herb Harriman with his wife. The caption data is unverified, and the record gives no date for the exposure. The glass plate came from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, so it most likely dates from those years. Such negatives were used to make quick prints for publication, which explains the agency's wide range of society and sporting portraits.
| 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 | 3,384 × 4,853 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22890 |
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