H. Morgenthau – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures H. Morgenthau in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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H. Morgenthau
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Little is recorded about this glass negative beyond its caption, which gives only the title "H. Morgenthau" and no date. The name fits two prominent men of the early twentieth century, Henry Morgenthau Sr., who served as American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and his son, Henry Morgenthau Jr., later Treasury Secretary, so the identification should be treated as provisional. The negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers in the 1900s and 1910s, and its small glass plates show the quick, workmanlike portraiture that made such agencies important to the press of the period.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16013 |
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