Chamlee – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Chamlee. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The record gives only one identifying detail: the title "Chamlee," a surname that the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or its caption card, though the Library of Congress notes that this attribution has not been verified. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work from the New York news photography agency that Bain ran in the early twentieth century. Its staff photographed politicians, performers, athletes, and street and news events, then sold prints to newspapers that needed images quickly. Because the glass negative is small, at 5 by 7 inches or less, it was made for that fast, practical news trade rather than as a fine-art print.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,170 × 7,506 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34701 |
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