Minister & Mme. Mahmoud Samy – Historic Photograph Print
![Minister & Mme. Mahmoud Samy, [1925] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f80f54d6d067-L.webp)
(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 Minister & Mme. Mahmoud Samy in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Minister & Mme. Mahmoud Samy
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A formal portrait of a minister and his wife, identified as Mahmoud Samy and Mme. Samy, carries a title that the studio recorded but that has not been independently verified. The picture is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that photographed government officials, diplomats and other visitors to the capital during the 1910s and 1920s. Glass plates of this period were coated by hand, and many now show streaks and faint blemishes as the emulsion deteriorates, which is worth keeping in mind when judging the image's tones and sharpness.
| Created / published | [1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. 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 six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,328 × 5,932 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-256708 |
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