Battling Mantell – 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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Battling Mantell 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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Battling Mantell
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The title "Battling Mantell" points to a prizefighter, since "Battling" was a common prefix in early twentieth-century boxing names, though the record does not confirm the subject's identity or the occasion. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work built by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold pictures of current events, sports, and public figures to newspapers. Bain's photographers worked mostly in the 1900s and 1910s, when boxing drew large crowds and frequent press coverage. The record gives no exact date, so the picture is best understood as a glimpse of that busy news-photo trade rather than a dated event.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,260 × 5,867 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11156 |
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