Herbert Witherspoon – 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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A window into the past: Herbert Witherspoon, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Herbert Witherspoon
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The record links this glass negative to Herbert Witherspoon, an American bass who built a long career in concert halls and opera houses in the early twentieth century. He sang with the Metropolitan Opera for several seasons and was named the company's general manager in 1935, but he died later that same year. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose pictures of performers, politicians and other newsworthy people fill this collection, made the negative, though the sitter's identification is unverified and no date is recorded. Glass negatives like this one keep the fine detail of early press and studio work.
| 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 | 3,384 × 4,953 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24763 |
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