Capt. Wendell, Harvard – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Capt. Wendell, Harvard. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Capt. Wendell, Harvard
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The caption links a Capt. Wendell to Harvard, which points to the university in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, though the record does not say who he was or what occasion brought him there. The glass negative came from the Bain News Service, the New York agency that George Grantham Bain built into a major supplier of news pictures in the early twentieth century. The title is recorded as unverified, so it is worth checking against other sources before it is repeated. Glass plates of this size were the standard working medium for newspaper photographers of the period, which makes the negative a useful trace of how such pictures were made and filed.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13072 |
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