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Constance / MW. – Antique Print

Constance / MW., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Constance / MW., [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Constance / MW.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Titled simply *Constance*, this platinum print is signed with the monogram MW, and a handwritten label in the collection identifies the maker as Matilde Weil. Made around 1900, it reflects the pictorialist style that shaped serious American photography at the turn of the century, when makers favored soft focus, painterly composition, and the fine tonal gradations that platinum paper could hold. The image was also published in *Camera Notes*, the journal of the Camera Club of New York, which helped circulate such work among amateurs and professionals. Frances Benjamin Johnston, herself a working photographer, kept this impression in her collection, and it reached the Library of Congress as a gift in 1948.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum.
Genreas "Beatrice." Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001
NotesLibrary owns 2 impressions: no. 137a (24 x 11 cm.) and no. 137b (24 x 12 cm. mounted on gray paper, 42 x 24 cm., with light brown and cream intermediate mounts). DLC Title from item. Signed with photographer's monogram. DLC Photo no. 137b FBJ label no. 133; Matilde Weil. On Constance/Matilde Weil" written in ink on label. DLC Also published in Camera Notes
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195502

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