Marion Harris – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Marion Harris. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Marion Harris
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The caption names Marion Harris, the singer whose 1920s recordings made her one of the best-known voices of her day, but the Library of Congress notes that this identification comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card. The Bain News Service, which George Grantham Bain started in New York around 1899, sent photographers to record newsmakers and public figures, and its early twentieth-century glass plates form a major record of that period. Because the sitter is unconfirmed, the plate's pose and setting are worth studying for clues, and the small-format negative shows how news photography was practiced before wire photos became common.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,353 × 4,947 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28542 |
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