Mrs. Fred Beach – 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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Step back in time with Mrs. Fred Beach, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mrs. Fred Beach
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This portrait is catalogued under the name Mrs. Fred Beach, but the record notes that the title comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card, so the sitter's identity remains uncertain. It is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspaper illustrations in the early twentieth century. The service's pictures were made for fast newspaper use, and its files now hold tens of thousands of such negatives. Without a firm date, the image is best read as a document of its period, in the studio conventions and photographic methods common when glass plates were the standard medium.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,753 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13680 |
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