Murphy – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Murphy in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Murphy
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The only identifying detail here is the title "Murphy," which the Library of Congress notes came from unverified information written by the Bain News Service on the negative or its caption card. The record gives no date, so the subject and setting remain uncertain. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency founded by George Grantham Bain around 1899, and it sold images of news events, notable people, and everyday scenes to newspapers. Its work was made on glass negatives like this one, a format that captured sharp detail and is valued by researchers today.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,453 × 4,890 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29829 |
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