Rosa Ponselle & Anna Ryan – 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.)
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Step back in time with Rosa Ponselle & Anna Ryan, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rosa Ponselle & Anna Ryan
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This glass negative pairs the American soprano Rosa Ponselle with a woman identified only as Anna Ryan, a portrait that stands apart from the many single-subject views in the collection. Ponselle, born in Meriden, Connecticut, rose quickly to fame at the Metropolitan Opera after her debut there in 1918, and press photographs of performers of her stature were in steady demand. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied images to newspapers in the early twentieth century, made the negative, though the sitting's date and Ryan's role remain unrecorded.
| 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 | 5,691 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30538 |
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