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Bruce Bairnsfather, 1887- – Vintage Print

Bruce Bairnsfather, 1887-, c1918. — historic photograph
Bruce Bairnsfather, 1887-, c1918.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Bruce Bairnsfather, 1887-, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Bruce Bairnsfather, the British cartoonist born in India in 1887, is the subject of this portrait, which is credited to Pirie MacDonald, a New York photographer known for his studio portraits of men. Bairnsfather became famous during the First World War for his cartoons of Old Bill, a weary, mustachioed infantryman who appeared in British magazines and was later collected in books that sold widely. The c1918 date and the photographer's credit come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1918.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ232412 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint by Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan984 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108874

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