Alda – 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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Step back in time with Alda, a historic photograph rich in period 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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The catalog gives only the name Alda, and it flags even that title as unverified, so the sitter cannot be confirmed from the record alone. One possible identification is the soprano Frances Alda, a New Zealand-born singer who performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced large numbers of glass negatives like this one for newspapers and magazines, and its working files were often captioned in haste, which is why the details here are uncertain.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,684 × 5,053 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39094 |
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