Chas. E. Townsend, J.E. Purdy, Boston / J.E. Purdy – 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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A window into the past: Chas. E. Townsend, J.E. Purdy, Boston / J.E. Purdy, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chas. E. Townsend, J.E. Purdy, Boston / J.E. Purdy
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The record names two men, Chas. E. Townsend and J.E. Purdy, with a Boston connection, though the title comes from caption data the Bain News Service supplied and has not been independently verified. This 1904 glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York-based news photo agency that sent pictures to newspapers across the country in the early 1900s. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of the period, and they preserve fine detail that later prints from them often lose. Because the record is brief, the sitters' roles and the occasion are not documented here.
| Created / published | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,222 × 5,817 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-6517 |
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