Chas. Watson – 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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Chas. Watson comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chas. Watson
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This glass negative is identified only by the name "Chas. Watson," taken from caption cards that the Bain News Service attached to its plates. The Library of Congress notes that this information is unverified, so the sitter's identity and the occasion remain uncertain. Bain's agency, founded in New York around 1899, supplied newspapers with news and portrait photographs for about fifteen years, and its plates were made on glass, the standard medium for sharp, reliable negatives at the time. Without a date or further caption, the plate is best read as one small part of the larger Bain file of early twentieth-century American life.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,148 × 5,817 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12360 |
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