Mrs. L.J. Balsan – Historic Reproduction
(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 Mrs. L.J. Balsan in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mrs. L.J. Balsan
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This portrait is catalogued under the name Mrs. L.J. Balsan, though the record notes that the title comes from unverified caption information supplied by the Bain News Service. The image survives as a small glass negative, a format that the agency and its contemporaries used widely in the early 1900s for quick press work. Bain's operation in New York circulated portraits of prominent people and newsworthy figures to newspapers, so pictures like this one give a sense of how society and public personalities were presented to readers of that era. Because the record gives no date, the exact year of the sitting is uncertain, and the negative is best read as a document of Bain's practice and the period's portrait conventions.
| 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 | 4,229 × 5,828 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26238 |
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