Kaiserin – Vintage Wall Art
(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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The only identifying detail here is the title, "Kaiserin," the German word for empress, which the Bain News Service attached to the negative or its caption card without verification. That makes the subject uncertain, though it suggests a portrait of a German empress, most likely the consort of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century, so its glass negatives record the images that circulated in the press of that era. The collection as a whole is a useful window onto how news photographs were made and distributed before wire photos became common.
| 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 | 4,210 × 5,778 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23490 |
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