Gigli – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Gigli, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The record gives only the title "Gigli," which the Library of Congress notes as unverified, so the sitter or subject is not confirmed. The name most likely points to Beniamino Gigli, the Italian tenor who became a major opera star and performed widely in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The picture is a glass negative, a fragile format that Bain News Service used for its news photographs. George Grantham Bain ran the Manhattan agency, which sold pictures of people and events to newspapers, so its images often capture the public figures of the day. Because the date is missing, the exact year is uncertain, but the collection as a whole spans the early twentieth century.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,115 × 7,524 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35058 |
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