Pete Pellison – Vintage Wall Art
![Pete Pellison, [1924] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/618b2ab13de2-L.webp)
(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 Pete Pellison. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pete Pellison
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The only name this glass negative offers is Pete Pellison, and the record does not say who he was or what occasion brought him before the camera. The plate dates from about 1924 and comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that produced a large volume of portraits and news pictures in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one often developed clouding and streaks as their coatings deteriorated, so the faint marks across the image are a physical record of the plate's age. Herbert A. French gave the negative to the Library of Congress in 1947.
| Created / published | [1924] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp note: Batch three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,270 × 4,215 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-240033 |
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