Pope Benedict XV – 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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Pope Benedict XV
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Pope Benedict XV, who led the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in 1922, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The record does not give a date, and its title comes from caption information that the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its accompanying card, which the Library of Congress notes has not been independently verified. Bain's agency supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and portraits of prominent figures like the pope were among the images it circulated. Benedict XV's papacy spanned the First World War, when he pressed for a negotiated peace, so the picture likely reflects the wartime attention the press gave him.
| 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 | 4,228 × 5,754 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18904 |
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