May Peterson – Vintage 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 historic photograph of May Peterson brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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May Peterson
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May Peterson was a stage actress and singer who appeared in Broadway musicals in the early 1900s, and this glass negative is one of the portraits that the Bain News Service, a New York press photo agency, produced of performers of that era. The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress holds tens of thousands of such images, made for newspapers and magazines that wanted pictures of theater people, politicians and newsworthy figures. The record gives only the name supplied on the negative or its caption card, and the date is not recorded, so the exact year of the sitting is unknown. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium of news photography before roll film became common.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,152 × 7,543 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33872 |
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