Gest and Balieff – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Gest and Balieff in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gest and Balieff
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This picture pairs two men rather than showing a place or event: the impresario Morris Gest and the Russian-born director Nikita Balieff, whose names the Bain News Service noted on the negative. Balieff had founded the Moscow cabaret Chauve-Souris (the Bat), which Gest brought to New York in the early 1920s, where its satirical revues drew large audiences. The Bain collection is a large body of news and portrait photographs, so a pairing like this offers a useful glimpse of how theatrical figures were presented to the public in that period.
| 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 | 2,946 × 4,334 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37104 |
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