Commission at British Embassy – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Commission at British Embassy comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Commission at British Embassy
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Few details survive for this glass negative, which the Bain News Service titled Commission at British Embassy, and no date is recorded. The agency, run by George Grantham Bain in New York in the early twentieth century, sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines, so pictures of diplomatic occasions were made to be published quickly with short captions. Because the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, the specific commission and the people involved remain uncertain, but the picture still shows how embassy events were recorded for the press 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,891 × 3,346 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25465 |
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