A. Didur – 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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A. Didur comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A. Didur
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The caption on this glass negative names A. Didur, and the record suggests the sitter is Adam Didur, the Polish bass who performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. The record does not confirm the identification, so the name should be read as the caption's own label. The negative belongs to the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose glass plates document theatrical, political, and everyday life in the early twentieth century. Bain's studio made portraits of performers that newspapers and magazines reproduced, so the plate is a useful record of how opera stars were presented to the public in that period.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,327 × 4,822 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24987 |
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