W.F. McCombs – Historic 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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A window into the past: W.F. McCombs, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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W.F. McCombs
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The record identifies its subject as W.F. McCombs, a name that appears on the glass negative and its caption card, though the Bain News Service identification has not been independently verified. The best-known man with these initials in the period is William F. McCombs, who chaired the Democratic National Committee during the 1912 presidential campaign that carried Woodrow Wilson into office. Bain News Service was a Manhattan wire photo agency whose pictures of politicians, public figures and events were sent to newspapers across the country. Because the negative is undated, the portrait is best read as a document of the agency's early-twentieth-century work with political figures.
| 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 | 3,352 × 4,853 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23220 |
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