J.J. Carty – 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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A window into the past: J.J. Carty, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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J.J. Carty
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The only identifying detail in this record is the name J.J. Carty, taken from caption cards or the negative itself and not yet verified. The sitter's role, the date, and the occasion are all unrecorded. The picture is a glass negative of 5 by 7 inches or smaller, made for George Grantham Bain's New York news photo service, which supplied newspapers with pictures of current events and public figures from about 1899 until the early 1910s. Its rapid, large-volume output means many portraits from this collection are known more by their captions than by documented histories.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,179 × 5,797 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21390 |
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