Elmer Rice – Antique 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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Elmer Rice comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Elmer Rice
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Elmer Rice, the playwright behind "The Adding Machine" and "Street Scene," is the figure this glass negative is catalogued under, though the record itself gives no date and only a Bain News Service caption as its source for the name. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds thousands of such negatives, made by a New York news photography agency that supplied pictures of public figures, theater people and current events to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Rice's work was then reshaping American stage drama with expressionist techniques, and the agency's portraits of artists like him offer a useful window onto how the press packaged celebrity in that era.
| 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 | 5,471 × 7,459 px · prints to 18 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33667 |
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