Hair dressing contest - Jap. – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Hair dressing contest - Jap. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hair dressing contest - Jap.
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A hairdressing contest with Japanese participants is the subject of this glass negative, which the Bain News Service recorded for its newspaper clients. George Grantham Bain ran the New York agency in the early twentieth century, and its photographers covered news events, public figures and everyday life, so the collection offers a vivid record of the period. The title uses "Jap.," an abbreviation common in captions of that era, and the catalog notes that it comes from unverified data on the negatives or caption cards, so the exact date and location remain uncertain. Staged contests like this one were often photographed for newspaper readers, and the picture shows how such events were presented to the public at the time.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,856 × 6,391 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34290 |
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