Joe Ruggert, Cards – 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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Joe Ruggert, Cards
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The surviving record for this glass negative gives only a name, Joe Ruggert, and the word "Cards." The title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its card, and it has not been verified, so the subject could be a card game, a playing card, or something else entirely. Bain was a New York press photo agency that sold pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives, most 5 by 7 inches or smaller, cover a wide range of people and events from that era. Because no date is recorded, this image is best understood as part of that commercial news output rather than as a dated record of a particular occasion.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18184 |
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