Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt – Vintage 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 Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt
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The sitter is Elsie French Vanderbilt, a name taken from caption data that the Bain News Service wrote on the glass negative, so the identification is not independently verified. She was married to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, an event that drew wide newspaper attention to the family. The Bain agency, based in New York, sold photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and portraits of prominent society figures like this one were made for quick publication alongside news stories. The record gives no date, so the exact sitting is uncertain, but the glass negative format is consistent with the agency's working period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,169 × 4,193 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-8961 |
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