Reginald McKenna – 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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Reginald McKenna comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Reginald McKenna
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The caption card names the sitter as Reginald McKenna, but the Bain News Service recorded that name as unverified, so the identification deserves some caution. McKenna was a British Liberal politician who served as Home Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer during the First World War, when wartime finance and domestic security dominated public debate. The Bain News Service, a New York agency, supplied photographs of prominent people, including overseas figures, to American newspapers, so portraits like this one show how British leaders were presented to U.S. readers. The glass negative format preserves fine detail from the early twentieth century.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,722 × 5,065 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37549 |
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