WESTPHALIA – Antique 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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WESTPHALIA comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The title "Westphalia" is the only specific detail this glass negative carries, and the Bain News Service attached it from its own caption cards, not from a verified source. Westphalia usually refers to a historic region of northwestern Germany, though the name also appears on several American towns, so the record leaves the subject open. George Grantham Bain's agency, based in New York, sent news and feature pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives now make up a large part of the Library of Congress holdings. Viewed that way, the plate is a working piece of a commercial news archive, and its missing date is typical of many negatives in the collection.
| 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 | 5,562 × 4,142 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40153 |
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