Farrar & Lou Tellegen – 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 Farrar & Lou Tellegen. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Farrar & Lou Tellegen
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Soprano Geraldine Farrar and Dutch-born actor Lou Tellegen, who married in 1916, are the subjects of this glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news and celebrity photographs in the early twentieth century. Farrar was a leading Metropolitan Opera singer who also became a popular silent film star, and Tellegen worked in both stage and screen acting, so the pairing reflects how performers of the period moved between opera, theater, and the growing film industry. The record gives no date for the sitting, so it is best read as part of the agency's wider run of celebrity portraits from the 1910s and 1920s.
| 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 | 3,390 × 4,897 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27446 |
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