John J. Lents – Antique Wall Art
(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 rare historic photograph captures John J. Lents in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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John J. Lents
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The record gives us a name and little else: a glass negative of John J. Lents, made for the Bain News Service, whose founder George Grantham Bain built one of the largest pictorial newsfile collections in the country. The Bain News Service operated in New York from about 1899 into the 1920s, supplying newspapers with photographs of politicians, athletes, performers and everyday news, so a portrait from this file was likely taken for a press caption. The title comes from data the service itself wrote on the negative or its card, which the Library of Congress notes has not been independently verified, so the subject's identity and role should be treated as provisional.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,222 × 5,779 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7764 |
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