Betty Compson – 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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A window into the past: Betty Compson, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Betty Compson, the silent-film actress, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news and celebrity photographs in the early twentieth century. Compson built a long career in silent pictures during the 1910s and 1920s and later moved into sound films, so the portrait captures a performer working in the busy studio era. The record gives no firm date, and the title itself comes from unverified caption data, so the exact year of the sitting remains uncertain. Bain's glass plates are valued today for documenting the faces and fashions of the period.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,116 × 5,698 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33190 |
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