Farrar & Lou Tellegen – Antique 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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A window into the past: Farrar & Lou Tellegen, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Farrar & Lou Tellegen
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Few pairings on this board are quite like this one: the American soprano Geraldine Farrar, a Metropolitan Opera star and later a silent-film favorite, and Lou Tellegen, a Dutch-born stage and screen actor. The two married in 1916, and their celebrity made them frequent subjects for newspaper and magazine photographers of the period. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied images to the press, produced glass negatives like this one for quick distribution to editors. The record gives no date, so the exact occasion is unknown, but the sitters' fame at the time makes the portrait a useful glimpse of how stage celebrities were presented to the public.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,302 × 4,891 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27440 |
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