Capt. Fisher, Harvard – 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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Capt. Fisher, Harvard comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Capt. Fisher, Harvard
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A glass negative titled "Capt. Fisher, Harvard" places a named officer on the Cambridge campus, though the record does not say which Fisher he was or what brought him there. The title comes from caption cards and data that the Bain News Service supplied, and the record itself has no firm date. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold pictures of people and events to newspapers from about 1900 into the 1920s, so this negative likely belongs to that newswire output. Glass plates of this size were a common format for press work of the era, and they preserve fine tonal detail that later prints can lose.
| 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 | 5,766 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10968 |
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