Gloria Swanson – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Gloria Swanson, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gloria Swanson
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Here the subject is the actress Gloria Swanson, identified by the title the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its caption card. The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress holds several thousand glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news and celebrity photographs in the early twentieth century. Swanson rose to fame in silent films during the 1910s and 1920s, and studio portraits like this one were circulated to publications eager for images of Hollywood stars. The record gives no date, so the exact sitting is uncertain.
| 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 | 3,243 × 4,864 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39140 |
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