Spechr Band – Antique Wall Art
(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Spechr Band. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Spechr Band
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The title on this glass negative reads "Spechr Band," most likely a misspelling of "Specht's," the name of a dance orchestra led by Paul Specht in the 1920s, though the record itself is unverified. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds pictures from the New York-based Bain News Service, a photo agency that sold news and feature images to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, so this may have been taken for publication. Dance bands of that period drew crowds to ballrooms and reached listeners through records and radio, and editors liked photographs that showed the faces behind the new popular sound. Because the negative is undated, the exact occasion and the people pictured remain uncertain.
| 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 | 8,979 × 6,578 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36131 |
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