Duchess of Westminster – Vintage 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: Duchess of Westminster, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Duchess of Westminster
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The record identifies its sitter only as the Duchess of Westminster, a title held by the wife of the Duke of Westminster, head of one of the richest landed families in Britain. That identification comes from caption cards and data supplied by the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain from about 1900 into the 1920s, and the record flags it as unverified, so treat it as a working attribution. Bain's files supplied portraits of society figures and public events to newspapers, which is why many of its negatives circulated widely in print. No date is recorded, so the exact moment the picture was made remains open.
| 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 | 4,179 × 5,773 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30185 |
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