Geo. Grafton Wilson – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Geo. Grafton Wilson, 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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Geo. Grafton Wilson
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The record names its subject as "Geo. Grafton Wilson," though the library notes that this title comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card, so the identification should be treated as provisional. The picture survives as a glass negative no larger than 5 x 7 inches, one of the small-format plates that the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain, produced and sold to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Bain's files are valued today for documenting the people, streets and events of that era, and a portrait from this collection offers a glimpse of how news photographs were made and catalogued.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,734 × 5,110 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37146 |
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