Mme. Zarska – 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 Mme. Zarska. 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 caption card gives this glass negative only one name, "Mme. Zarska," and the Bain News Service's own notes flag that title as unverified, so the sitter's identity and role remain uncertain. The "Mme." prefix was common for women in performance, fashion, and society in the early twentieth century, but the record does not say which applied here. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold pictures to newspapers, and its collection, now at the Library of Congress, holds tens of thousands of glass negatives made mostly between about 1900 and 1920. Pictures from that era often survive with thin documentation, so the image is best read as a portrait of a working period rather than a confirmed biography.
| 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 | 3,409 × 4,978 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22240 |
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