Oscar Seagle – 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 Oscar Seagle. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Oscar Seagle
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Catalogued under the name Oscar Seagle, this glass negative carries a identification that the Library of Congress notes is unverified, drawn from caption cards kept by the Bain News Service. Seagle was an American baritone and voice teacher who studied in Paris with Jean de Reszke and later ran a summer music colony at Schroon Lake, New York. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York from around 1900 into the 1920s, made portraits of performers and public figures for newspapers, so the plate likely reflects that working press tradition. Its small glass format makes it a useful example of how the agency documented the era's public life.
| 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 | 3,390 × 4,947 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24785 |
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