Kurupensky - Ambassador – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Kurupensky - Ambassador, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Kurupensky - Ambassador
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The title on this glass negative gives the subject's name as Kurupensky and his role as ambassador, but the record flags both as unverified, taken from notes on the negative or its caption card. Those details have not been confirmed against other sources, so they are best treated as a starting point. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its glass plates document the people and events of that period, so this frame is best read as a working news image of its time rather than a formal portrait.
| 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 | 4,235 × 5,841 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26235 |
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