H.J. McGowan – Antique 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.)
Description
H.J. McGowan comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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H.J. McGowan
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The only identifying detail here is the name H.J. McGowan, which appears in the title taken from caption cards and negative sleeves that the Bain News Service wrote. The Bain News Service, founded by George Grantham Bain in New York in the early 1900s, produced a steady flow of press photographs of people, events, and daily life, and its glass negatives were sent to newspapers and magazines for reproduction. Because the name is recorded without a date or further context, the identity of the sitter and the occasion remain uncertain. Collectors often find that the glass plate format and the caption information on Bain's material are as useful for dating a print as the image itself.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,210 × 5,816 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7202 |
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