Fred Miller – 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: Fred Miller, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fred Miller
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The record gives this glass negative only one name, Fred Miller, and the Bain News Service supplied that label without confirming it, so the sitter's identity remains unverified. George Grantham Bain founded his New York news photo agency around 1899, and it sent pictures of public figures, events, and everyday street scenes to newspapers across the country. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of that era, valued for sharp detail. Because no date is recorded, the image is best read as a document of the early twentieth-century press photography trade.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,709 × 5,034 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38026 |
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