Gauvreau of the Dominion police during the Crippen case – Vintage 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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Gauvreau of the Dominion police during the Crippen case comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gauvreau of the Dominion police during the Crippen case
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The man pictured is identified in the caption as Gauvreau of the Dominion Police, a Canadian force that became part of the hunt for Hawley Harvey Crippen, the London doctor accused of murdering his wife. Crippen and his companion, Ethel Le Neve, had sailed for Canada in July 1910, and wireless messages let officers reach the liner Laurentic before it docked at Quebec. The Canadian officers' role in boarding the ship and taking Crippen into custody made the case a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. Bain News Service, a Manhattan agency that sold news photographs, circulated images like this one to newspapers quickly. The date given with the negative is also uncertain, so the exact day of the photograph should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | 8/3/10. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 4,197 × 5,829 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-6263 |
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