A.S. Tompkins – Historic 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 A.S. Tompkins. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A.S. Tompkins
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The record is catalogued under the name A.S. Tompkins, but it gives no date, and the title comes from unverified information written on the negative or its caption card, so the subject's identity is uncertain. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Glass plates like this one, roughly 5 by 7 inches or smaller, were the standard medium for press and portrait work before flexible film became common, so the negative is a useful record of the methods of 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,248 × 5,829 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22801 |
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