Rex Beach – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Rex Beach, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rex Beach
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The record identifies this glass negative as a portrait of Rex Beach, the American novelist whose Alaska and Klondike adventure stories, including *The Spoilers* (1906), were widely read in the early twentieth century. The negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with images of public figures. The catalog gives no firm date, and the name comes from the agency's own caption data, so it is worth treating as a working identification. Still, the collection's glass plates capture the look of press photography in the years before halftone reproduction became routine.
| 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 | 5,433 × 7,458 px · prints to 18 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33623 |
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