Matt Wells & Mgr. McDonald – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Matt Wells & Mgr. McDonald in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Matt Wells & Mgr. McDonald
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This picture pairs two named men, Matt Wells and a "Mgr. McDonald," and the title comes from caption data the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives, which the Library of Congress notes is unverified, so the names and the honorific deserve some caution. The Bain News Service, founded by George Grantham Bain in New York around 1900, sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines, and its glass negatives record the portraits, events, and personalities that drew press attention in the early twentieth century. Because the record gives no date, the exact occasion is uncertain. The glass plate itself, a small format typical of the service's work, is a useful reminder of how news images were made and circulated before halftone printing became routine.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11027 |
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