Piez, 5/1/14 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Piez, 5/1/14. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Piez, 5/1/14
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The only identifying detail in the record is the surname Piez, with a date of May 1, 1914, and the title itself comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service wrote, which the Library of Congress notes it has not verified. The Bain News Service was a New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain that sold pictures of people, events, and places to newspapers, so this negative was made for quick press use rather than as a considered portrait. Its nitrate base was standard for news photography of the period, and it is also a fragile, flammable material that archives now copy and store with care.
| Created / published | 5/1/14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,160 × 5,779 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28343 |
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