Mrs. Clinton Backus – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mrs. Clinton Backus. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mrs. Clinton Backus
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A glass negative portrait labeled as Mrs. Clinton Backus, though the record flags that name as unverified and taken from the caption cards or negative sleeve, so the identity may need checking. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold photographs of current events, public figures and everyday city life to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium of that era, prized for their sharp detail and used until flexible film became common. The record gives no date, so the picture is best placed in the agency's active years, roughly the 1900s through the 1910s.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,309 × 5,816 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16200 |
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