Martinelli – Antique 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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Step back in time with Martinelli, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The only identifier here is a surname, Martinelli, and the record marks it as unverified, so the subject is uncertain. The name most likely points to Giovanni Martinelli, the Italian-born tenor who was a leading Metropolitan Opera singer for decades, though the record does not confirm which Martinelli appears. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news picture service in the early twentieth century, when staged portraits of performers and public figures were common in the press. Its value lies in showing how such news photographs were made and circulated before the rise of wire photo services.
| 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 | 5,189 × 7,571 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35130 |
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