Capt. Paxton Hibben – 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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Step back in time with Capt. Paxton Hibben, 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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Capt. Paxton Hibben
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Capt. Paxton Hibben is identified only by name and rank on this glass negative, and the record gives no date, so the identification rests on the Bain News Service's own caption data, which the Library of Congress notes is unverified. Hibben was an American officer and diplomat whose career took him to China and Central America, the kind of posting that drew wire-service attention in the early twentieth century. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds roughly 40,000 negatives from the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers with portraits and news pictures from about 1900 to the 1920s. Its glass plates record how press photographers worked in that era, with large cameras, slow exposures and hand-written caption cards.
| 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 | 4,110 × 5,792 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31674 |
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