Mrs. L.J. Balsan – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mrs. L.J. Balsan. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mrs. L.J. Balsan
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The sitter is identified only as Mrs. L.J. Balsan, and the Library of Congress notes that this name comes from unverified information written on the negative or its caption card by the Bain News Service. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the portrait is unknown. The Bain News Service was a New York photographic agency that sold pictures of people, events and places to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives survive as the George Grantham Bain Collection. Its portraits were usually made for publication, so the sitter's name and the picture's purpose were recorded on the card, which is the main clue to who she was.
| 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 | 4,242 × 5,822 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26237 |
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