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Mrs. Mary Horse (American Ind.) – Vintage Print

Mrs. Mary Horse (American Ind.), n/a — historic photograph
Mrs. Mary Horse (American Ind.), n/a. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mrs. Mary Horse (American Ind.). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Mrs. Mary Horse (American Ind.)

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The sitter is recorded as Mrs. Mary Horse, so the name refers to a woman rather than an animal, despite the gallery board. The title comes from data the Bain News Service supplied on its negatives or caption cards, and the Library of Congress has not verified it, so the identity and the date of the portrait remain uncertain. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news and feature photographs made by the Bain News Service in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s. Negatives like this one were typically made for newspapers and other clients, so portraits from the collection offer a useful view of how news studios recorded people in that era.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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 seven loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan1,576 × 1,195 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-33271

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