Pavlowa – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Pavlowa in remarkable detail. 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 record names the dancer Anna Pavlova, though the title comes from unverified caption data, so the identification is worth holding loosely. Pavlova was a leading ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet whose solo *The Dying Swan* made her one of the most recognized performers of the early twentieth century, and she toured the United States extensively from 1910 onward. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photography agency that supplied pictures of theater people, politicians and current events to newspapers. Its studio-style pictures of stage figures offer a useful look at how celebrity images were made and circulated in 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,419 × 8,838 px · prints to 21 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35323 |
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