Tanis Guinness & "Ta Wang" – 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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Tanis Guinness & "Ta Wang"
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This negative is catalogued under the names Tanis Guinness and "Ta Wang," and the record flags both as unverified, taken from data the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its caption card. The Bain agency was a New York photo business that sold pictures of people and events to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, so the sitters were likely chosen for public interest. Because the date is missing, the exact occasion is uncertain. The glass plate format, a common medium of the period, is worth noticing because it preserves fine detail and shows how press photographs were made before film became standard.
| 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 | 5,723 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12326 |
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