Unidentified soldier – Vintage 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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Unidentified soldier
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The record does not name the sitter or give a date, so this glass negative of an unidentified soldier can only be placed in general terms. It came from the Bain News Service, the New York picture agency George Grantham Bain founded around 1899 to sell news photographs to newspapers. Plates like this one were made for quick reproduction, so a portrait was often taken for a caption and a page layout rather than as a keepsake. Because the title is unverified, the most useful things to notice are the uniform and pose, which reflect the steady press demand for images of servicemen in the early twentieth century.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,322 × 4,922 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29960 |
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