Jessie Bartlett Davis, Bostonians"" – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Jessie Bartlett Davis, Bostonians"" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Jessie Bartlett Davis, Bostonians""
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Jessie Bartlett Davis, the contralto shown here, is pictured in the costume and pose of a stage performer, which fits the c1889 date on the record. She was a singer of light opera and concert music who performed with a Boston-based comic opera company known as the Bostonians, and that association is what the caption ties to this portrait. The studio credit to N. Sarony points to Napoleon Sarony, a New York photographer who made many theatrical portraits of performers in this period. Such cabinet-style studio portraits were widely sold and collected, so they served both as publicity and as keepsakes for fans.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by N. Sarony. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123226 |
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