Mrs. Jos. T. Brown – 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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Mrs. Jos. T. Brown
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The only identifying detail here is the sitter's name, Mrs. Jos. T. Brown, and the record itself flags that title as unverified, so there is no firm record of who she was or when the portrait was made. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of glass negatives produced by the Bain News Service, a pictorial news agency that supplied photographs to newspapers in New York and beyond in the early twentieth century. Bain's files were organized by subject and caption, so a card like this one reflects how commercial press photographs were labeled and filed for later use. Its value lies largely in what it shows about that working process.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,684 × 5,040 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37480 |
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