Bertha Kalich – Vintage 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 Bertha Kalich. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bertha Kalich
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Bertha Kalich was a Yiddish and English-language stage actress whose performances drew large audiences in New York in the early twentieth century, and this glass negative is one of thousands made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of celebrities, politicians and news events. Bain's studio worked fast, often shooting portraits for same-day or next-day editions, so the plates capture the posed, theatrical style that suited the stage personalities of the era. The record gives no date and the name comes from the agency's own caption cards, so the exact sitting is unverified. Collectors value these negatives as a record of how the city's famous faces were presented to the public.
| 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 | 6,503 × 8,857 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34694 |
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