Dorothy Gish – 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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Dorothy Gish comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dorothy Gish
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Dorothy Gish, the silent-film actress and younger sister of Lillian Gish, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that supplied pictures of theater people, politicians and news events to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s, and its work survives mainly as glass plates like this one. The record gives no date, and the identification comes from the agency's own caption data, which was not independently verified. Gish rose to prominence in silent comedies and dramas during the 1910s and 1920s, so the portrait belongs to that era of studio-era celebrity.
| 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 | 6,513 × 8,884 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34783 |
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