Pedro Rodriquez, on horse, Colporteur of American Bible Society, Caracas – Vintage 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.)
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A window into the past: Pedro Rodriquez, on horse, Colporteur of American Bible Society, Caracas, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pedro Rodriquez, on horse, Colporteur of American Bible Society, Caracas
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A man named Pedro Rodriquez sits mounted on a horse in this glass negative, identified in the caption as a colporteur for the American Bible Society in Caracas, Venezuela. Colporteurs were itinerant agents who sold or gave away Bibles and religious tracts, often traveling on foot or horseback to reach towns with few bookstores. The Bain News Service, whose founder George Grantham Bain built the collection, supplied many of these negatives, and the name and place come from its caption cards, which the Library of Congress notes are unverified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 936 × 707 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5261 |
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