J. Rosenwald – 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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A window into the past: J. Rosenwald, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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J. Rosenwald
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The caption on this glass negative gives only an initial and a surname, "J. Rosenwald," and the attribution is unverified, so the sitter is best read as a likely reference to Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago executive who led Sears, Roebuck and later funded schools for rural Black communities in the South. Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of people in the news from about 1900 into the early 1930s, and its negatives were often filed with incomplete information. Without a date, viewers should treat the identification as a starting point rather than settled fact.
| 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 | 3,515 × 5,022 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27833 |
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