Farrar and Gerryflappers – 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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Farrar and Gerryflappers
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The title pairs the name Farrar with "Gerryflappers," a term the record does not explain, and the Bain News Service supplied that title without verification. Farrar most likely refers to Geraldine Farrar, the Metropolitan Opera soprano who later became a silent film star, but the negative itself carries no date or caption to confirm the identification. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold pictures of people and events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so its glass negatives offer a snapshot of how the public saw celebrities 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,103 × 3,684 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37515 |
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