Liang Shih Yi – 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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A window into the past: Liang Shih Yi, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Liang Shih Yi
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The record gives the sitter's name as Liang Shih Yi, but the Library of Congress notes that the title comes from unverified data the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives or caption cards. The name most likely refers to Liang Shih-yi, a Chinese official who held senior posts in the Beiyang government during the early Republic years, roughly the 1910s and early 1920s. Bain's New York agency supplied news photographs to newspapers, so a portrait like this was probably made for press use, not as a private commission.
| 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 | 2,983 × 4,346 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38325 |
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