Lauri Volpi "Allegna" – Antique 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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Lauri Volpi "Allegna"
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The record ties this glass negative to the Italian tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, and the word "Allegna" appears in the title as a caption from the Bain News Service that the library has not verified. No date is given, so the exact year is unknown. Bain's New York studio produced thousands of negatives of stage performers, politicians and other newsworthy people in the early twentieth century, and portraits of singers like this one show how opera figures were presented to the public then. Lauri-Volpi sang in the United States during the 1920s, a period when newspapers and magazines relied heavily on agency photographs like these.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,734 × 5,122 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36833 |
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