Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff
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The record names this sitter as Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, but that title comes from caption cards the Bain News Service itself marked as unverified, so the identification is provisional. The surname is most often linked in American newspapers of the period to Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Germany's ambassador in Washington until 1917, when relations with the United States collapsed before the country entered the First World War. Bain News Service, a New York agency, sold pictures of officials, diplomats and other newsworthy people to papers across the country, so its glass negatives show how such figures were presented to the public in those years.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,679 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14438 |
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