Messager – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Messager, 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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Messager
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The record gives only one word, "Messager," as the title, and it lists no date, so the subject of this negative can't be pinned down from the catalog alone. The title comes from notes made by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and the Library of Congress has not verified it. Glass negatives like this one, 5 by 7 inches or smaller, were the standard working medium for press photographers of that era, and they preserve the sharp detail that made such images useful for print reproduction.
| 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 | 4,835 × 3,297 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28860 |
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