Schwartz – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Schwartz. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The only identifying detail in this record is the surname "Schwartz," which appears as a title taken from unverified notes on the negative or its caption card, so the sitter, place, and occasion remain unconfirmed. It is a single glass negative, a format that Bain News Service, the New York press photography agency run by George Grantham Bain in the early twentieth century, used widely for news and portrait work. Those negatives were sent out to newspapers and magazines, so many images in the collection were made to be reproduced quickly for daily publication. Glass plates like this one are fragile, and their survival is part of what makes the collection valuable to researchers.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,691 × 5,047 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36607 |
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