Owen Lovejoy – 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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This historic photograph of Owen Lovejoy brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Owen Lovejoy
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What sets this negative apart is its name. The record gives the sitter as Owen Lovejoy, but that title comes from caption data written by the Bain News Service and has not been verified. The name matches Owen Lovejoy, the Illinois abolitionist congressman who died in 1864, yet this Bain negative dates from the early twentieth century, so the sitter may well be a different man. The Bain News Service, a New York agency, sold news photographs to newspapers, and its glass negatives record the people and events it covered in that 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,247 × 5,810 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25380 |
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