Sir Harold Bowden – 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.)
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Sir Harold Bowden comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sir Harold Bowden
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The sitter is Sir Harold Bowden, a British industrialist who later chaired the Raleigh Cycle Company of Nottingham, the bicycle maker his father, Sir Frank Bowden, had built into a well-known name. The record gives no date, and the identification rests on caption cards from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose glass negatives make up the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's photographers worked from the early 1900s into the 1920s, often making portraits of visiting dignitaries and newsworthy people for newspaper clients, so the image offers a glimpse of how businessmen and public figures were presented in that period.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,785 × 5,053 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38122 |
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