Trotsky – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Trotsky, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Trotsky
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This glass negative carries the title "Trotsky," though the Bain News Service supplied that identification without verification, so the sitter should be read as a probable rather than confirmed match. If the name is right, the subject is Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917 and was later exiled by Stalin. The Bain News Service, a New York agency active from the early 1900s into the 1920s, sold news photographs to papers and magazines, so pictures like this one were made for prompt publication when a public figure was in the news. The record gives no date, so the exact occasion is unknown.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,475 × 8,922 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34450 |
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