Mrs. Jas. Speyer – Vintage 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Mrs. Jas. Speyer in remarkable detail. 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. Jas. Speyer
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The record names only Mrs. Jas. Speyer, a title the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives and caption cards, and the catalog notes that the identification has not been verified. If it is correct, the sitter would have been the wife of James Speyer, a New York banker, and part of the social and philanthropic circles the Bain studio photographed often. The picture survives as a glass negative no larger than 5 by 7 inches, a format Bain's photographers used widely for portraits and news work in the early twentieth century. Its missing date is a reminder of how many named sitters passed through these files without a firm record of when they were taken.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,135 × 5,735 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32814 |
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