Mort. Schiff & family – 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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Mort. Schiff & family comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mortimer Schiff and his family are shown in this glass negative from the Bain News Service files, though the record gives no date and flags the title as unverified. Schiff was a New York banker with the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Company and a well-known philanthropist in the early twentieth century, so the sitting likely reflects the public profile of prominent New York families of that era. Bain's agency supplied news and portrait photographs to newspapers, and its large holdings of glass plates make the collection a useful record of the period.
| 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 | 3,316 × 4,840 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25619 |
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