Elmer Dover, 9/6/23 – Vintage Wall Art
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(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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Step back in time with Elmer Dover, 9/6/23, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Elmer Dover, 9/6/23
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Here we have a portrait of a man named Elmer Dover, captured on a glass negative dated September 6, 1923. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., commercial studio that worked from the early 1900s into the 1930s, produced large numbers of images like this one, and its glass plates were later donated to the Library of Congress. Because the negative is made of glass, it preserves fine tonal detail, though the record notes streaks and blemishes caused by deterioration of the original coating. The identity of the sitter rests on information written on the negative sleeve, which the archive has not independently verified.
| Created / published | [19]23 September 6. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,268 × 5,240 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-238752 |
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