Capt. Leslie Cheape – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Capt. Leslie Cheape, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Capt. Leslie Cheape
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This glass negative records Capt. Leslie Cheape, a British Army officer whose name is taken from caption cards supplied by the Bain News Service. The archive gives no date, and the title is marked as unverified, so the identification rests on those original notes. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its glass plates, made in small formats like this 5 x 7 inch negative, were often the only surviving record of the people it covered. Captain Cheape's service during the First World War would have placed him among the many British officers whose portraits circulated through such agencies.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17420 |
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