Queen Wilhelmina & Juliana – Historic Reproduction
(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 Queen Wilhelmina & Juliana. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Queen Wilhelmina & Juliana
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Here the subject is a pairing: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her daughter, Princess Juliana, the two figures named in the title. The record is thin, and the date is listed only as unknown, so the exact occasion is unclear. The image belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold press photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Its glass negatives preserve a record of royalty and public figures as the wire photo trade captured them, and the Dutch royal family drew steady international attention 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,204 × 5,779 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13601 |
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