Adm. W.S. Sims – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Adm. W.S. Sims. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Adm. W.S. Sims
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Few portraits in the Bain collection name a naval officer as plainly as this one, though the record notes that the title comes from caption cards and has not been verified. William Sowden Sims was a career Navy officer who commanded United States naval forces in European waters during the First World War, where he worked closely with British authorities and pushed for the convoy system against submarine attacks. Bain News Service, the New York agency that made this glass negative, supplied photographs of public figures to newspapers across the country in those years, so the picture reflects how wartime leaders reached the public. The record gives no date, so its exact moment is uncertain, but the subject places it in that period.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,141 × 5,741 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26044 |
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