Gilb. C. Bourne – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gilb. C. Bourne. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gilb. C. Bourne
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The only identifying detail here is the caption "Gilb. C. Bourne," a name that appears on the negative or its caption card, and the catalog flags it as unverified, so the sitter's identity and the occasion remain open. The record gives no date or location, so the picture's exact setting cannot be confirmed. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of glass negatives from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Bain negatives like this one are useful for studying how press portraits and news images were made and captioned 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,160 × 5,679 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40418 |
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