Sir Wm. Mitchell Ramsay – 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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Sir Wm. Mitchell Ramsay comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sir Wm. Mitchell Ramsay
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The record identifies the sitter as Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, though that name comes from caption data the Bain News Service supplied and has not been verified. Ramsay was a Scottish scholar who spent decades surveying the roads and ruins of Asia Minor, now Turkey, and wrote widely on the travels of the apostle Paul and the early Christian communities there. He held the Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford, which made him one of the leading British authorities in his field. The negative carries no date, so it is best read as a portrait of a scholar whose work was well known in the early twentieth century, when the Bain agency was producing news and portrait pictures for American newspapers.
| 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 | 3,741 × 5,059 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38085 |
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