Muratore – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Muratore. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The caption on this glass negative names Muratore, most likely the French tenor Lucien Muratore, though the Library of Congress notes that the title comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card. Muratore was a popular singer in the years before the First World War, performing on opera stages in Paris and New York, and press pictures of performers were in steady demand. Bain News Service, the New York agency George Grantham Bain founded around 1899, sold such images to newspapers, so the negative was probably made for quick publication rather than as a studio portrait. Its small glass format is typical of that working collection.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,422 × 4,915 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26521 |
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