Dr. N.M. Butler – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Dr. N.M. Butler, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Captioned as Dr. N.M. Butler, this glass negative most likely shows Nicholas Murray Butler, longtime president of Columbia University, though the record notes the title is unverified and gives no date. Butler led the university from 1902 to 1945 and was a prominent voice in education and national affairs, sharing the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced large numbers of negatives like this one for newspapers in the early twentieth century, so the plate shows how public figures were routinely recorded for the press of that era.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,321 × 4,834 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24570 |
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