Slemp & Sherrell – Vintage Photo Print
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(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Slemp & Sherrell. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The title names two people, Slemp and Sherrell, taken from the negative sleeve, though that identification has not been verified, so the sitters remain uncertain. The plate dates to about 1923 and belongs to the National Photo Company Collection, the work of a Washington, D.C., commercial studio that photographed officials, events and everyday city life in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one were hand-coated, and many have aged with streaks and blemishes as their original coatings deteriorated, marks that are visible on this example. Those flaws are worth noticing, since they record how the plate has changed over decades of storage.
| Created / published | [1923] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,305 × 4,245 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-238828 |
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