Franz Lehar – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Franz Lehar. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Franz Lehar
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Franz Lehár, the Hungarian-born composer best known for the operetta "The Merry Widow" (1905), is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that worked from about 1900 to the early 1920s, shot portraits like this for newspapers and magazines eager for images of celebrities from theater, music and politics. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact sitting is uncertain. Still, the picture is a useful window onto how Lehár was presented to the public during the years when his operettas were filling theaters across Europe and America.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,097 × 5,672 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31254 |
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