Wm. R. Hearst (& wife) – Antique 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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Wm. R. Hearst (& wife) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Wm. R. Hearst (& wife)
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Among the Bain negatives, this one pairs newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst with his wife, the only sitter identified in the record. Hearst built one of the largest newspaper empires in the country, anchored by the New York Journal, and he was a frequent subject of public attention in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, supplied images like this to newspapers and magazines. The record offers no firm date or occasion, so the setting remains uncertain, but the glass negative still shows how the press portrayed prominent figures of its day.
| 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 | 4,141 × 5,816 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27741 |
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