Garrett P. Serviss & Hudson Maxim – 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.)
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Garrett P. Serviss & Hudson Maxim 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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Garrett P. Serviss & Hudson Maxim
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Two men known more for words and ideas than for the camera stand together in this glass negative, a pairing the record names as the astronomer and popular science writer Garrett P. Serviss and the inventor Hudson Maxim. Serviss wrote widely on astronomy and was the author of *Edison's Conquest of Mars*, a sequel to H. G. Wells's *War of the Worlds*, while Maxim was known for his work on smokeless explosives. The Bain News Service, which supplied news photographs to New York newspapers in the early twentieth century, made this negative, but the record gives no date or occasion, and its title is unverified.
| 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 | 3,190 × 4,771 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39982 |
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