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Blackton family – Vintage Print

Blackton family, n/a — historic photograph
Blackton family, n/a. Historic photograph from the Bain News Service collection.

(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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Blackton family

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Little is recorded about the Blackton family beyond the title, which the Bain News Service attached to the negative or its caption card and which has not been independently verified. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of glass negatives from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news and feature photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. With the sitters and date unknown, the image is best read as an example of that commercial press work, with its small glass plates and fast, practical picture-making, rather than as a record of a known event.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan4,903 × 3,347 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-28475

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