Caruso & wife – 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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The title names the tenor Enrico Caruso and his wife, though the record gives no date and the identification comes from caption cards that were never verified. Caruso sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for much of the 1900s and 1910s, and his fame made him a frequent subject for news photographers. The Bain News Service, which worked in New York from about 1899 into the early 1930s, supplied pictures of such public figures to newspapers and magazines. Glass negatives like this one were fragile and easily cracked, so a surviving plate is worth noting.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,265 × 4,865 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28690 |
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