Adoree Villany – Antique Wall Art
(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: Adoree Villany, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title on this glass negative names a performer, "Adoree Villany," but the record notes that it was taken from caption cards and is unverified. The spelling may point to Renée Adorée, a French-born silent film actress who worked in Hollywood in the 1920s, though the record gives no date or setting to confirm that. The Bain News Service, a New York press photo agency active in the early twentieth century, supplied newspapers with pictures of celebrities, politicians and news events, and its glass negatives were kept as a working archive. Treat the identification as a lead rather than a settled fact.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,154 × 5,735 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13620 |
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