Cidman & Tsianna – Historic Reproduction
(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: Cidman & Tsianna, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cidman & Tsianna
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The title names a pair, "Cidman & Tsianna," with the ampersand suggesting two people who worked or appeared together. The Library of Congress notes that the name comes from unverified information written on the negative or its caption card, so the identities and the occasion remain uncertain. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency founded around 1899 that supplied newspapers with photographs of current events, public figures, theater, and sports. Its glass plates from the early twentieth century give a close record of the city's daily life and its celebrities, and this one shows that same practice of recording named individuals for publication.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,457 × 8,941 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34607 |
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