Sophie Braslau – Historic Reproduction
(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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Sophie Braslau comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sophie Braslau
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Contralto Sophie Braslau, whose deep voice made her a notable figure on the opera and concert stages of the 1910s and 1920s, is the subject of this glass negative from the Bain News Service. The New York agency supplied newspapers and magazines with news and celebrity pictures in the early twentieth century, and its photographers often portrayed performers for publication. The record gives no date, so the exact sitting is unknown, though the glass plate format matches the studio's working methods of that period. The title comes from caption cards that the Library of Congress describes as unverified, so the identification is worth checking against other sources.
| 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 | 4,105 × 6,012 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25141 |
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