Hope Hampton – Vintage Wall Art
![Hope Hampton, [1922] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/53/534b89f63af7-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Hope Hampton, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hope Hampton was a Broadway and silent-film star, and this glass negative comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that made thousands of portraits of public figures in the early twentieth century. The studio's negatives were often labeled from its own records, so the name here is a studio attribution rather than a verified identification. Hampton's career rose during the 1910s and early 1920s, when stage performers and film actresses were among the most photographed people in the country. Glass plates like this one were the working medium of the period, and the surface streaks visible in the emulsion are a common result of age rather than a flaw in the sitting itself.
| Created / published | [1922] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,948 × 4,340 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-252050 |
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