Prince Tsia-Hsun with unidentified gentleman – 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.)
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Prince Tsia-Hsun with unidentified gentleman
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The sitter here is Prince Tsia-Hsun, a member of the Qing imperial family photographed in 1910, when the dynasty was in its last years and sent princes abroad to build foreign goodwill. The companion figure is listed only as an unidentified gentleman, so the picture's record leaves his role unknown. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan press agency that sold photographs to newspapers, supplied the title on the negative or caption card, and the Library of Congress notes that this wording has not been independently verified. The image survives as a small glass negative, a format that press photographers used widely in the early twentieth century for quick portraits of visiting dignitaries.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,754 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-6497 |
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