Bessie Love – 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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Bessie Love
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Bessie Love was an actress whose career spanned the silent era into early sound films, and this glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large holding of the Bain News Service, a press photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in New York from the early 1900s through the 1920s. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified information written on the negatives or caption cards, so the exact sitting is uncertain. Still, the collection as a whole offers a window into how studio portraits and celebrity images were made and circulated in that period, when glass plates were the standard medium for newspaper photography.
| 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 | 3,195 × 4,771 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40008 |
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