Mary Garden "Sapho" – Antique 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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Mary Garden "Sapho"
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Mary Garden, the Scottish-born soprano, is the subject of this glass negative, which the Bain News Service labeled as her role in "Sapho," Jules Massenet's opera based on Alphonse Daudet's novel about a Parisian artist's scandalous affair. Garden was closely associated with Massenet's work and sang the title role in American productions, drawing wide attention in the press. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan picture agency, sold news photographs to newspapers through the early twentieth century. Because the title came from caption cards the agency wrote itself, and the record notes it is unverified, the staging and date should be treated with some caution.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,505 × 7,108 px · prints to 18 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2548 |
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