Fritz Thyssen – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Fritz Thyssen. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fritz Thyssen
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Fritz Thyssen is the sitter named in this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Thyssen was a German industrialist whose steel and coal interests in the Ruhr made him one of the more prominent business figures of his era, and he later became an early financial backer of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced and distributed images like this one in the early twentieth century, so the portrait reflects the news-driven demand for pictures of notable figures. The record gives no date or photographer, and the identification comes from the agency's own caption cards, so it is worth treating the name as provisional.
| 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 | 3,703 × 5,078 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36700 |
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