Kaiser Wilhelm I – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Kaiser Wilhelm I in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Kaiser Wilhelm I
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The glass negative is titled for Wilhelm I, the Prussian king who became German emperor in 1871 and oversaw the unification of Germany under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, though that identification rests on unverified caption cards from the Bain News Service. Bain was a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines, so the negative likely existed to produce copies for publication. Its survival among the agency's files, now held by the Library of Congress, offers a window into how illustrated news circulated in the early twentieth century.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,228 × 5,760 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29411 |
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