Ponselle – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Ponselle, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rosa Ponselle, the American soprano, is the subject of this glass negative, one of the many portraits the Bain News Service produced of performers and public figures in the early twentieth century. Ponselle rose to fame at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 1920s, where she was celebrated for her powerful voice and her partnership with her sister Ada and tenor Enrico Caruso. The Bain collection, held by the Library of Congress, preserves thousands of such glass negatives, which give a useful picture of how news photographers documented stage and concert personalities of the period. The record does not give a date for this particular negative, so its exact year is unverified.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,748 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31480 |
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