Paul Swan – 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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Paul Swan
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The title "Paul Swan" comes from caption data that the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its card, and the record has not been independently verified, so the identification rests on that label. If it holds, the sitter would be a dancer, a figure whose stage work drew attention in New York during the 1910s and 1920s, when interpretive and classical-inspired dance was widely covered in the press. Bain News Service, founded by George Grantham Bain, supplied photographs of people and events to newspapers of that era, so the glass negative reflects the working practice of a news photo agency rather than a studio portrait. Its date is not recorded, which makes the exact moment of the exposure hard to pin down.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,438 × 3,076 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27002 |
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