Mary Pickford – 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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Step back in time with Mary Pickford, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mary Pickford
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Mary Pickford, the Canadian-born actress who became one of the most famous faces of the silent screen, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of celebrities, politicians and news events, and Pickford was a frequent subject in the 1910s and early 1920s, when her films made her one of the biggest stars in America. The record gives no date for this negative, and the title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negative or its card, which was not always verified. Glass plates like this one preserved the fine detail that made Bain's pictures useful to editors.
| 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 | 6,579 × 9,082 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36140 |
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