Billie Burke with horse – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Billie Burke with horse in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Billie Burke with horse
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Billie Burke, the stage and film actress best remembered today as Glinda in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," is the figure this glass negative puts at the center of the frame, posed alongside a horse. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a large body of news photographs made by the Bain News Service in New York in the early twentieth century. Its title comes from caption information that the agency recorded on the negatives or cards, which the Library notes is unverified, so the exact occasion and date remain uncertain. Bain's photographers often covered society figures and stage personalities, and pictures like this one show how celebrities were presented to newspaper readers of that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,008 × 826 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3732 |
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