J.W. Lawrence Jr. & bride & wedding party – Historic Reproduction
(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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J.W. Lawrence Jr. & bride & wedding party comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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J.W. Lawrence Jr. & bride & wedding party
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A wedding party portrait of J.W. Lawrence Jr. and his bride, recorded only under that name, survives as a glass negative from the Bain News Service. The Library of Congress catalog lists the title as unverified, so the couple's identities and the ceremony itself rest on the caption cards rather than on confirmed documentation. Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold news and feature pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives capture the formal group posing typical of that era. Because the date is not recorded, the picture is best understood through its photographic style and its place in the Bain collection.
| 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 | 4,290 × 2,890 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38261 |
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