Mrs. Owen Johnson – Antique 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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A window into the past: Mrs. Owen Johnson, preserved in this historic photograph. 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. Owen Johnson
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This portrait of Mrs. Owen Johnson survives as a glass negative, a format the Bain News Service used heavily for the press photographs it sold to American newspapers in the early twentieth century. The sitter's name comes from the caption cards and the agency's notes, which the Library of Congress lists as unverified, so the identification should be treated as provisional. Owen Johnson was a New York novelist and writer of the period, and society and literary portraits like this one were common in the agency's files. Bain's negatives are valued today as a record of the faces and fashions of the era that newspapers chose to publish.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,166 × 5,754 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13160 |
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