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Minnie Renwood – Vintage Print

Minnie Renwood, c1894. — historic photograph
Minnie Renwood, c1894.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 Minnie Renwood. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A sepia studio portrait of Minnie Renwood, dated around 1894, carries a copyright line naming Benjamin J. Falk of New York. The caption card suggests a theatrical or vaudeville connection, though that tracing carries a question mark and is unverified. Falk's studio produced many portraits of stage performers in the 1890s, when publicity photographs were a common way for actors and singers to reach audiences and theater managers. Portraits like this one show how performers presented themselves to the public at the time.

Created / publishedc1894.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsSepia photo copyrighted by Benjamin J. Falk, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Theater--Vaudeville?; BI; Shelf. Sources checked: www.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,249 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132439

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