Heifetz – 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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Heifetz
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This glass negative is catalogued under the name Heifetz, most likely a reference to the violinist Jascha Heifetz, though the title comes from caption cards and has not been independently verified. Heifetz, born in Vilna in 1901, made his American debut in New York in 1917 and soon became one of the best-known concert violinists of his time. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Glass negatives like this one were a standard working medium for such agencies, and they hold a fine detail that prints made for daily papers often lost.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,352 × 4,884 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29910 |
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