Olive Thomas – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Olive Thomas, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Olive Thomas
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Olive Thomas, the subject named in this glass negative's record, was a Ziegfeld Follies performer who became a popular silent film actress in the 1910s. Her career was brief, and she died in Paris in 1920 at age 25. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold news pictures to newspapers, made many portraits of stage and screen figures like her. The record gives no date, but the glass negative format and the agency's origin place the picture in 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 | 3,409 × 4,947 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22650 |
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