Kreisler – 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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A window into the past: Kreisler, 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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Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian-born violinist, is the subject named in this glass negative, which came out of the Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from about 1900 to the early 1920s. Kreisler was one of the most celebrated concert violinists of that era, touring the United States often and drawing large audiences with his polished tone and his short, sweetly melodic pieces. The record offers no date and the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, so the exact occasion is unknown. Bain's files are worth noticing for their sheer scale, since they capture performers, politicians and ordinary street life in a documentary style.
| 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 | 2,878 × 4,265 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36630 |
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