Miss Rubel, Becky Edelson, Louise Berger and Berkman – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Miss Rubel, Becky Edelson, Louise Berger and Berkman. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Miss Rubel, Becky Edelson, Louise Berger and Berkman
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The caption names four people: Miss Rubel, Becky Edelson, Louise Berger, and a man identified only as Berkman. The Bain News Service caption is unverified, and the record gives no date, so the names are the only firm clues to who appears here. The picture is a glass negative of the kind the Bain agency made for newspapers in New York in the early twentieth century, when press photographers often recorded individuals and small groups at public events, meetings, and studio sittings. Because the agency's captions were sometimes written from memory, viewers should treat the identities as a starting point for research rather than settled fact.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,773 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17780 |
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