Elsie de Wolfe – Vintage 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 Elsie de Wolfe in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Elsie de Wolfe
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Elsie de Wolfe is the sitter named on this glass negative, which belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain News Service, the New York photo agency Bain ran from the early 1900s, produced and sold images of notable people, and de Wolfe was a prominent figure in that world: an actress who became one of America's most influential interior decorators and a celebrated hostess in Paris and New York. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information that the Library notes is unverified, so the exact sitting remains uncertain. Still, the image reflects the agency's wider practice of documenting public figures of the period on glass plates.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,191 × 5,716 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-20462 |
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