Choate Funeral – 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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A window into the past: Choate Funeral, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The title points to a funeral for Joseph Hodges Choate, the New York lawyer who served as ambassador to Britain from 1899 to 1905, though the record gives no date and the identification comes from unverified caption data. Choate died in New York in April 1917, and a funeral for a figure of his standing would have drawn prominent mourners and press attention, the kind of occasion Bain News Service photographers often recorded for newspaper use. The Bain collection consists of early twentieth-century glass negatives, so the image shows how public ceremonies were staged and documented in that period. Until the caption can be checked against other sources, the specific subject should be treated as provisional.
| 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 | 4,847 × 3,272 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25650 |
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