John Wels – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: John Wels, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John Wels
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The only identifying detail here is a name, John Wels, and the record itself flags it as unverified caption information, so the sitter's identity remains uncertain. The picture survives as a glass negative, a fragile format that news photographers favored in the early twentieth century for its fine detail. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, drawn from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of public figures, events and everyday news. Many of its negatives came with incomplete caption cards, so their subjects are often known only in part.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,072 × 5,710 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31253 |
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