Grace Filkins – Antique 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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Grace Filkins. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Grace Filkins was an American actress who performed on the stage in New York in the early 1900s, and this glass negative is one of the portraits made by the Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency that sold pictures of notable people to newspapers. Bain's studio worked in the era when press photographs were prized for showing celebrities and public figures to a mass audience. The record gives no date, so the exact sitting is unknown, but the negative belongs to a large collection that documents the theater and public life of its period. Note that the title comes from unverified caption data written by the agency.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,197 × 5,791 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4817 |
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