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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kern and trained dog Bobbie – Historic Print

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kern and trained dog Bobbie, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kern and trained dog Bobbie, [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kern and trained dog Bobbie. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kern and trained dog Bobbie

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Frank Kern and his wife posed for this group portrait with Bobbie, a trained dog, in a glass dry plate negative measuring 8 by 10 inches, made sometime between 1900 and 1910. The Detroit Publishing Company, which catalogued the image as no. 043275, produced large numbers of photographs of people, towns and landscapes during these years, and its large-format negatives captured a good deal of fine detail. Animals were a less typical subject than scenery in commercial catalogs, so Bobbie's presence gives the picture a more personal character. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 043275. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70205

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