Ober as "The Wife of Bath" – Historic Reproduction
(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 rare historic photograph captures Ober as "The Wife of Bath" 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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Ober as "The Wife of Bath"
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The sitter here is identified as Ober, costumed as the Wife of Bath, a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's *Canterbury Tales* who is known for her boldness and her talkative, worldly manner. The record notes that this title comes from caption cards and Bain News Service data that have not been verified, so the role itself is worth treating as a working attribution. The Bain News Service was a New York agency that supplied news and theatrical pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its glass negatives, such as this 5 x 7 inch example, show how working photographers recorded stage and society figures for publication.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,154 × 5,729 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25173 |
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