Trotsky – 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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Step back in time with Trotsky, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Leon Trotsky is the subject named in this glass negative, one of the many portraits the Bain News Service produced and that George Grantham Bain later collected. Trotsky was a leading Bolshevik figure during the Russian Revolution of 1917, serving as commissar for foreign affairs and later as head of the Red Army, before he fell from power in the mid-1920s and spent his final years in exile. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the exposure is uncertain, and the title itself comes from unverified caption data written by the news service. Its value lies in showing how American news photographers circulated images of foreign political figures to newspapers.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,128 × 5,723 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30110 |
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