Ruth McDonald – 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: Ruth McDonald, 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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Ruth McDonald
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The portrait is catalogued under the name Ruth McDonald, a title the Library of Congress notes is unverified and was taken from caption cards or the negative itself by the Bain News Service. It is one of the glass negatives in the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of work built by a news photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in New York from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Bain's studio sent photographers out to events, streets and public figures, and the resulting negatives were filed by subject for quick sale to editors. Because the record gives no date and no further identification, the sitter's identity and the occasion remain uncertain, but the glass plate format itself points to 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,365 × 4,960 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25950 |
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