Adm. Peary – 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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Adm. Peary
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Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer, is the subject here, and the Bain News Service caption attached to the glass negative gives his name and rank only, with no date or other detail. Peary is best known for leading expeditions in northern Greenland and for his disputed claim to have reached the North Pole in April 1909. The Bain News Service was a New York wire photo agency that sold images of newsworthy figures to newspapers, so portraits like this one were made to be reproduced quickly alongside current stories about the Arctic.
| 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 | 5,742 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14150 |
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