Mary Garden as "Thais", H.. Mishkin, N.Y. / H. Mishkin – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Mary Garden as "Thais", H.. Mishkin, N.Y. / H. Mishkin in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mary Garden as "Thais", H.. Mishkin, N.Y. / H. Mishkin
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Mary Garden, the Scottish-born soprano, is shown here in costume for the title role of Massenet's opera *Thaïs*, the part that became closely associated with her. In 1907 she performed it in New York at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House, where her portrayal drew wide press attention. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a Manhattan agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its studio credit, H. Mishkin, points to the portrait practice of the period, when opera stars were photographed in character to promote their performances.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,160 × 5,810 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4189 |
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